Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night club, switches to the Wets after a month in jail, with such success that he is elected to Congress, and his daughter and pet office girl are free to marry their respective tenors. Bide Dudley (dramatic critic of the N. Y. Evening World) and Louis Simon (actor in the play) wrote the book, worked in many a laugh, also insinuated a jail scene, one of those atrociously vulgar burlesques on sex perversion so popular this year. It was greeted enthusiastically, justifying entirely the discretion of the writers. The audience left the theatre whistling " 'Cross the River...
...cast chosen for this performance rivals the repertoire in brilliancy. Clandio Muszio, one of the foremost primadonnas, will sing the leading role. Eide Norena, known throughout Europe as the Norwegian nightingale, and Virgilio Lazzari, one of the finest basso-baritones and an actor of exceptional ability, are included in the cast...
...Play's The Thing?Dramatist Molnar and Actor Blinn conspire to laugh the hiss out of scandal...
Mozart. Where many another impresario has failed, Producer A. H. Woods has succeeded in luring the famed Guitrys (Sacha Guitry, French actor-playwright, Yvonne Printemps, his actress-wife) to the U. S. They presented M. Guitry's Mozart, the same dresden-china play of virginal genius in which Irene Bordoni appeared earlier this season (TIME, Dec. 6). Though Yvonne Printemps' radiant personality breathes life into the titular role (which was created especially for her), the play still seems fragile to the point of brittleness. The Guitrys were cordially received but the handicap of dialogue in foreign language militates...
...pets singing like nightingales suffering from acute indigestion. Presently we heard a camel gurgle in response. It was not one of ours! By this time I was thinking furiously of certain quaint amusements indulged in by un-Frenchifled indigenes, in which the stranger within the gates is the principal actor. Suddenly there came a blast on a whistle and on all sides appeared camel men in white burnooses, all very pretty and business-like but what mainly caught my attention was the fact that the leader was wearing a kepl...