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...stage wooers, have already this season displayed their best cavalier postures in plays productive of little else (TIME, Oct. 21, Nov. 4). They are now followed by Lou Tellegen, an actor of bearing as lordly as befits a onetime leading man of Sarah Bernhardt and Eleanora Duse. As a bandit???descendant of the wildly surmising explorer Cor-tez?he descends upon a cinema company taking pictures in the Mexican mountains. To his castle on the crags he carries the stately leading lady (Helen Baxter) and numerous others, including a cameraman's little fiancee (Dorothea Chard), who is thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Little Jessie James (musical comedy). The deeper phases of the activity depend upon the memorable bandit character, Jesse James. The girl in the case is also a bandit???except that she wrecks trains of thought and dynamites dams along the canons of true love instead of bothering with the Union Pacific and the Shoshone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 27, 1923 | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

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