Word: bainter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is no need to be worried about the present state of the theatre," said Miss Fay Bainter to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon in her dressing room between the acts of "First Love", the French importation in which she is now starring at the Plymouth. "The theatre and the modern play are in quite as good standing as the novel of today and other fields of artistic endeavor...
...Messrs. Shubert present Fay Bainter in "First Love" with Bruce McRae in a New Comedy badly adapted by Zoe Atkins from the French play "Pile ou Face" by Louis Venneuil. Miss Bainter's gowns, unfortunately, are by Boue Soeurs...
...Count has a son who has left his father's bed and board three years previous to the curtain to write popular songs in Parisian Tin-Pan Alley. Here, the son, Mr. Geoffrey Kerr, has been fortunate enough to awaken with his piano one night the charming Miss Bainter, playing the part of a Roumanian medical student. Thus acquaintance, attention, and infatuation in quick succession. A bailiff with a long name has come to the Count to attempt to reconcile the Father and son, and by the by to collect 7,452 francs that the son owes him. The Count...
...second act is in the garret room in which live Mr. Kerr and Miss Bainter. It is certainly the best part of the play, though the author takes too much pain to convince his indifferent audience that Mr. Kerr and Miss Bainter are most irretrievably in love through the introduction of 266 amatory forms of address, 33 kisses, and 18 embraces. At the end of the act Mr. Kerr has gone off to marry his Father's choice in a plot to obtain the 500,000 franc bribe and then desert her, while Miss Bainter has gone...
...Baron, of course, turns out to be the Count de Varigny as a Mr. Hyde in search of unrequited Romance with a green-panelled Elsie de Wolfian apartment for the entertainment of his amatory experiments. After a very tiring tete a tete supper the Count discovers that Miss Bainter is the be loved of his son and there follows forgiveness, reconciliation, and the happy ending, (500,000 francs...