Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birthday. David Belasco, theatre man; in Atlantic City...
Elected. David Belasco, famed Manhattan theatrical producer; as a governor of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, England...
These delicate, unsolved terrors were so sensitively evoked that the Gardens Players won the Cup donated by clerical-collared Producer David Belasco for the best production. There were also two $200 prizes for the best unpublished plays. Hudson Strode of Anniston, Ala., won one of these with The End of the Dance, as presented by the Anniston Little Theatre. It was silly drama about a woman with a weak heart who died after she learned that her husband, whom she had supposed a musical genius, was in reality an esthetic piddler...
...Crucifixion which has caused more Jewish agony, persecution and oppression. . . . Were we a devout Christian [and had we seen the Gest production] we could never again look upon a Jew with kindliness and respect; the commandment. 'Love thy neighbor,' would definitely exclude Jews. . . . When two Jews [Morris Gest, David Belasco] indulge in such an obvious commercialization of the Gospel story . . . we must characterize the producers . . . as highly reprehensible from the Christian attitude, and, from the Jewish, as nothing else than contemptible...
Critic Edward Alden Jewell of the New York Times: ". . . There are some big bells swinging?bells about the size that Mrs, Leslie Carter used to swing from, so long, so long ago, in Mr. Belasco's Heart of Maryland. . . . One adoring saint on the right is holding a violin . . . another is holding a baby that looks rather like another violin. . . . Although he calls them music and they were designed for the walls of a music room, there is nowhere visible a melodic line. . . . Let us say that it is a fairly good uprooted modern musical chord slurred and fumbled...