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...authors (Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson) owe no moderate debt to the cast for a performance that rubs elbows with perfection. Louis Wolheim (Hairy Ape) plays the drunken captain; William Boyd, the sergeant; and Leyla Georgie, a newcomer, the girl. Mr. Wolheim has the toughest face in the American Theatre, the toughest part as Captain Flagg, and he blends them irresistibly. The remainder of the company seems a superb selection. The play with any other cast would smell too sweet...
None but the Brave?A bitterly objective War play by Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson is now in rehearsal with Louis Wolheim (Hairy Ape) as star. In the cast are 15 men and 1 woman...
...original thought,' writes Mr. Brisbane in The American. 'John Cromartie, citizen of New York, writes to the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, saying he'd like to be exhibited in the monkey house with the other primates, to show how much man resembles the ape." It is, as Mr. Brisbane so well puts it, an original thought. Original, it must be added, with Mr. David Garnett, author of the just-published A Man in the Zoo.* By a strange coincidence Mr. Garnett hit upon the name John Cromartie also. And Mr. Cromartie had himself exhibited...
...contingency of his marrying, he will automatically be freed from his contract. So the doors of his cage are unlocked and the lovers walk out together. It is to be assumed that Keeper Collins gets his Gibbon back safely and that peace reigns once more over the Ape-House...
...that this message was a few words longer than one which I wired to a Dinner Committee in Massachusetts that was engaged in promoting my son from Lieutenant Governor to Governor. In that message I said: 'Gentlemen: Can't come. Thank you.' " Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine Ape: "My father was released from the private insane asylum in which he has been held, being declared of sound mind. The release was ordered by Judge Llavallol following an appeal in which my father stated that he had been unjustifiably detained in the asylum at my instance." George V, King...