Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. William Haskell Coffin, illustrator, portraitist; by Frances Starr, famed Belasco-developed actress; in Reno...
...Manhattan's Waldorf Theatre all last week, every night was amateur night. Occasion: the eighth annual Little Theatre Tournament, held under the aegis of Producer David Belasco. After 20 one-act presentations had been performed by amateurs from Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, St. Louis, Albany, Providence, Buffalo, Starkville (Miss.) and Goldsboro (N. C), the following survived for the final round...
Winners of the highest award, the David Belasco Trophy: the Studio Theatre Players of Buffalo, a three-year-old group which entered the tournament this year for the first time...
...Mielziner for his glowering 19th Century interiors; and for the delicate reticence of Miss Gish's acting. Not since 1913 has Cinemactress Gish been on Broadway. At that time she inhabited the same boarding house as Cinemactress Mary Pickford, who got her a small part in David Belasco's A Good Little Devil. Soon afterward David Wark Griffith took her in charge, well-nigh beatified her during the next 15 years as the virginal, wide-eyed heroine of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, The White Sister, et al. Soon to be seen...
Tiger Rose (Warner). Lenore Ulric amply proved that this weak-kneed melodrama of strong men and a siren in the Canadian Northwest was effective in the theatre. Bright-eyed little Lupe Velez lacks the finesse that Belasco taught Lenore Ulric, but makes up for it to some extent by her vivacity, her Mexican accent, and the songs she sings occasionally in a voice sharp as a cactus, shrill and toothy, but somehow attractive. Best shot: Bull Montana wiping his nose with his shirt sleeve...