Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rose of the Rancho (Paramount). As a vehicle for the cinema debut of Contralto Gladys Swarthout, a revival of David Belasco's famed stage success recommended itself for obvious reasons. Born of U. S. parents and reared in Deep Water, Mo., Miss Swarthout has a Latin appearance well suited to a rigmarole about Spaniards in California and their efforts to hold their ancestral estates against early land-grabbers. Furthermore, the dual roles of Rosita Castro and Don Carlos, masked leader of the Spanish vigilantes, enable her to maintain a tradition which she inaugurated at the Metropolitan Opera...
...Norman Bel Geddes is no stranger in the realm of artistic imagination. In Dead End, "an experiment in technique, a step toward increased realism in writing and production." Designer Geddes has given the U. S. Theatre new dimensions in the realm of naturalism. Displayed on the stage where David Belasco used to draw plaudits for showing real roses in real vases is apparently the east end of Manhattan's 53rd Street. To the left stands the rear entrance of a swank apartment not unlike River House. In the centre squats a row of verminous flats. To the right rises...
There is one ghost that stamps itself unforgettably on The Return of Peter Grimm: the shaggy white-haired shade of the late David Belasco, its original author, director and producer. When in 1911 Belasco turned out this play, he put so much of himself into it that he used to confide to friends: "Like Shakespeare, this, I think, will live forever." Defying two theatrical decades, The Return of Peter Grimm continues to fulfill its author's boast...
TIME rarely betrays its incredible youthfulness. But anyone over forty would recall that it was not Minnie Aladdern Fiske (TIME, Aug 19) but Mrs. Leslie Carter who in 1895 swung herself and David Belasco to fame in The Heart of Maryland...
...belfry bell to silence the news that her prisoner-lover has escaped. In the play, her first success, Mrs. Carter let down her bright red hair and swung 229 times in Manhattan in 1895, 96 times in London in 1898. In Mrs. Carter's later plays, David Belasco always arranged a scene in which she could undo her hair. Hence the favorite remark of the 1890's: "Let's go to the new Belasco play and see Mrs. Carter let her hair down...