Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are in New York only about a dozen really important producers. Their names remain fixed while those of actors shine and grow dark. David Belasco, Lee Shubert and his brother Jake, Sam Harris, "Ziggy," the Selwyns, George M. Cohan, Winthrop Ames, William A. Brady, A. H. Woods, George White, Dillingham-everyone who sees plays or reads about them has heard of these. There is only one new man among the first-line producers. Younger than the rest but equally successful, he took it easy last week while others were in a ferment of excitement, getting their new offerings ready...
Jack Dempsey, conqueree of Gene Tunney, left the realm of sock for the Manhattan world of buskin last week. With his wife, Estelle Taylor, cinemactress, he began rehearsing The Big Fight, drama. David Belasco will lend a directing hand. Said Dempsey: "The regular actors won't need to take to cover for a while...
...defend himself, Borough President Connolly hired unfinicky Lawyer Max D. Steuer, "the Belasco of the Bar." After a succession of confused events, including mysterious burning and theft of records which might have injured the defense case, Connolly asked the city for $100,000 to pay for his trial as a public official. When this astonishing request was refused, Borough President Connolly resigned. The Governor's investigation changed from one to determine Connolly's fitness for office, to one to determine his fitness for a penal cell...
...Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett, Bernarr Macfadden (Graphic). Herbert Bayard Swope (World), Will Hays, Tex Rickard, Charles Michael Schwab, Otto Hermann Kahn, William Randolph Hearst, Alexander Pollock Moore (U. S. Ambassador to Peru and new owner of Daily Mirror), Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, David Belasco, Mr. Smith (Trader Horn), Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Ruth Elder, Kathleen Norris, the McCarthy sisters, others, including President Emma Bugbee of the New York Newspaper Women's Club...
...neither cinemas nor vaudeville acts; it is perhaps paradoxical that legitimate plays have of late shown an increasing tendency to concentrate upon the question of illegitimate children. Plots are hung often upon the query; ''Whose baby are you?" The Bachelor Father was brought to Broadway by David Belasco, who has so frequently been called the dean of Manhattan theatrical producers that he always wears a canonical collar. It deals gently and tenderly with a lovable old libertine who, in his dotage, calls his bastards to him from the ends of the earth that he may be entertained...