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...From 1850 to 1880 minstrelsy was the biggest thing in the U.S. theatre. Famed players like Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, William Macready and Edwin Booth were hard put for audiences in any town where "cullud opera" was playing. In 1850 the great Booth himself gave a blackface performance at Bel Air, Md. P. T. Barnum once corked his own face and appeared in such early favorites as Zip Coon, The Raccoon Hunt, Gittin' Up Stairs. Stephen Foster wrote his masterpieces for minstrels. John Philip Sousa, Gentleman Jim Corbett and George M. Cohan's father all did their blackface...
...Barbara Bel Geddes, 20-year-old daughter of the futuristic designer, nabbed a movie contract, promptly started off on the right leg. When photographers greeted her with a demand for cheese cake, she measured up to the occasion by producing...
Goodspeed now lives in Bel-Air, near the University of California, where he has been lecturing on his pet subject. He still clings to his habit of reading detective stories. He once wrote a readable one: Curse in the Colophon...
Sons and Soldiers (by Irwin Shaw; produced by Max Reinhardt, Norman Bel Geddes & Richard Myers) trots out a lot o flossy china for a terribly bad dinner. Laid in 1916, it describes how a young bride for whom childbearing would be dangerous (Geraldine Fitzgerald) dreams the life of her unborn son (Gregroy Peck) all the way to 1942. It is a pretty hackneyed life most of the way - a Tarkington childhood, a Scott Fitzgerald youth, a John Dos Passos coming-of-age ; and it halts on the tragic threshold of war. But the young bride decides to have a child...
Last week Colonel le Bel arrived in French Guiana. Frenchmen and natives greeted him with cries of "Vive De Gaulle, Vive Giraud...