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Oldtimers still go on about William Vaughn Moody's smash hit The Great Divide, in which Margaret Anglin and the late Henry Miller were starred. A book about Miller† published this week tells of his going on tour with the play to Pittsburgh. Before its Manhattan triumph, The Great Divide had been tried out and was panned by critics in Pittsburgh, and Miller was very touchy, about his return engagement there. When, on the first night, people started walking out on his big scene, Miller marched angrily to the footlights, shouted "Are you petty enough to be influenced...
...annually given some publicity to a man or woman whom the University of Notre Dame considers an outstanding lay Catholic. The Laetare Medal, a gold disc bearing a rose and a device suggesting the recipient's vocation, has gone to such Catholics as Alfred Emanuel Smith, Actress Margaret Anglin, Tenor John McCormack, Mrs. Genevieve Garvan Brady, now Mrs. Macaulay. Last week, for its 1937 award, Notre Dame chose a Catholic pedagog: Dr. Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford, 63, chairman of the department of Romance Languages at Harvard University...
...beard years ago in Gotterdammerung, the slap Geraldine Farrar gave Caruso in Carmen, the hot potato he mischievously pressed into Nordica's hand. Playing Tosca in Vienna before the War, Jeritza fell on her face, coolly sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown. Once when Mischa Levitzki was performing in Carnegie Hall, a mouse crept close to the piano, sat up when the pianist played softly, scuttled...
Like Milton, Moody intended to soar with no middle flight. But he was pleased when a play he had written, The Great Divide, pleased Actress Margaret Anglin, liked it even better when the play was a Broadway hit and put his name in U. S. lights. He tried again but never repeated his success. When Harriet finally divorced her husband and married Moody, it was only for a brief honeymoon and a long last illness. After his death she continued to be a friend to the friends of the Muse: her warm-hearted hospitality is still grate fully remembered...
...FRESH FIELDS--Now in Chicago bright lights, with Margaret Anglin and Alexandria Carlisle. Will undoubtedly seek fresher fields soon after close of Century of Progress...