Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hidden his orchestra in gloom (TIME, Oct. 18). But he had placed himself under a refulgent yellow spotlight. The latter, he explained, was a necessary evil. A conductor must be seen by his men. Unkind critics said that Dr. Stokowski had been bitten by the David Belasco show-off bug. The kindest ones declared that by making himself a cynosure, Dr. Stokowski had spoiled his hoped-for effect...
...critics that M. Stokowski, in his desire to hide his orchestra for the music's sake, had inadvertently made himself a cynosure for all the extra attention he had hoped to gain for his music. Unkind critics even charged Conductor Stokowski with "childish display," with having contracted the David Belasco show-off virus...
...comedienne, are lost to Fannie Brice, emotional actress. Perhaps it is the fault of the play, a concoction of sugar and tears drained by three of its characters, an old philanthropist, a grateful beneficiary, a swindling villian. Miss Brice looks much, much better in revue skits, even if David Belasco did stage this play...
...perverted by one of the women in his own establishment) was indicted by the Grand Jury, and the producer and some of the performers fined (1923). Last season William A. Brady voluntarily withdrew his Good Bad Woman after much agitation and a conference with the District Attorney. David Belasco purified his notorious Ladies of the Evening and it was allowed...
Tremont--"Ladies of the Evening," produced by Belasco on Monday...