Word: annabell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...poet is taken through early life, an early love affair, down to a tavern in the slums where, down and out, he rumbles out a recitation of "The Raven." Earlier in the evening he has had a duet with his lady on the subject of Annabel Lee. When the surprised auditors heard them burst forth with "O my Annabel, O my Annabel Lee," much in the style of a sticky vaudeville ballad, several tore up their programs and stole sobbing from the theatre...
Edgar Allan Poe?Annabel Lee, Ul-alume and portions of other poems...
Anyhow, in these rather terrifying surroundings, the will is read, and nobody has the slightest luck except Miss Annabel West, to whom everything falls unless she chances to be of unsound mind. Apparently she isn't, but how she comes through the rest of the play with all her mental equipment intact is the greatest mystery...
...that first?" Barrie muttered in chagrin when he learned that a movie magnate had chosen "Male and Female" as the title for a screen version of "The Admirable Crichton." A similar feeling would animate Poe were he alive to learn that Bostonians have been viewing a picture of "Annabel Lee." Poe wrote a passable lyric, but the consensus of opinion among the movie people has been that the six short stanzas are woefully deficient in plot. This has been repaired by the scenario writer, who carries the love story of David and sailor and Annabel through many adventures and vicissitudes...
...this country for some time, part of it under the Fine Arts Department here, Mr. Jones went to Berlin where he studied scenic design at Reinhardt's Theatre. Since returning to America, he has designed scenery and costumes for the Russian Ballet, "Caliban," Claire Kummer's comedy "Good Gracious, Annabel," and "A Successful Calamity," with William Gillette. Mr. Jones designed the scenery for John Barrymore's last three successes: "Redemption." "The Jest," and "Richard the Third," and one of his latest works is that in the new Ben Ami play produced by Arthur Hopkins. Because they did not attain...