Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Belasco Collar...
...conventionalized clothing that clergymen affect. Said he: "I feel like flinging a brick at a reporter when he refers to me as a 'gentleman of the cloth.' A preacher should dress and act so that no one suspects he is a minister and should avoid the 'Belasco collar...
...book by Authors Disney and Mackaye contains only contributions, coaxed from such personages as the presidents of the Lucy Stone League and of the Bush Terminal Co., Authors W. E. Woodward (Bunk) and Irvin Cobb, Professor William Lyon Phelps and David Belasco. Cartoonist Rube Goldberg was allowed to make up one game and, choosing the monosyllable "cdflm," he included among his categories a "kind of candy" and "something you see in a barn." This book also contains blank pages for self-sufficient Guggenheimers and people who like to try outguessing themselves...
...five years the Little Theatre Tournament, held in Manhattan for the David Belasco Cup, has symbolized the removal of amateur theatricals from small-town drawing-rooms and carriage sheds to more or less formal theatres. The contestants produce one-act plays only, either new or published...
...Deck was extracted from an old Belasco play entitled Shore Leave, the plot of which charts the adventures of the hostess (Louise Groody) of a sailors' inn, who follows in the wake of Sailor Bilge Smith (Charles King), finally towing him away from all those sweethearts in every port to her own suddenly acquired opulence. In addition to merry tunes, jolly chorus, salty high-spirits, the show has the rarest quality of the season-humor. The Thief. In her fourth attempt of the year, talented Alice Brady has hit upon a revival. Henri Bernstein's play was written...