Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commission for the enormous murals in Trenton's City Hall by building an eight-foot model of the building, through the windows of which the late John Roebling (wire rope) was delighted to discover a reproduction of his own Factory No. 9. He decorated the interior of the Belasco Theatre in Manhattan, has been art director for three cinema companies. And, best of all, he is the author of one of the most successful burlesques ever written: Hazel Weston, or More Sinned Against Than Usual. This Shinnanigan has been played continuously for 23 years and translated into seven languages...
...general. A civilian again, he married, took his bride to the U. S. to set up for himself. In Lynbrook, Long Island, he started a tiny restaurant which soon became a famed resort of Manhattan gourmets. J. P. Morgan Sr., Diamond Jim Brady, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt, David Belasco were among his clientele. Prohibition nearly ruined Henri, drove him in disgust back to France. Repeal brought him back again. Last year he opened his present restaurant in Rockefeller Center, Manhattan...
...vaudeville containing but few sparks of real entertainment. Vanderbilt and Daye are fairly good dancers and have created a dance to the rumba rhythm which is at least different. Ranny Weeks and his orchestra are mildly entertaining and manage to sound quite a bit like New York's Leon Belasco...
...Cecil Blount DeMille was born in Ashfield, Mass, in 1881. His father was Henry-Churchill DeMille, who collaborated on plays with the late David Belasco. When Henry DeMille died, his widow first turned her home into a girls' school, sent young Cecil to Pennsylvania Military College. his older brother William to Columbia. Later she founded the DeMille Play Com pany, originally formed to supply the in creasing demand for DeMille-Belasco plays, which did a flourishing agent's business for 20 years. Young Cecil studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, set out to be an actor. After...
Composer Ludig for 14 years arranged the incidental music for the late David Belasco's plays. Modestly he says of his Rhapsody in Steel: "I tried to do something like Honegger's Pacific No. 231 but of course it is not as great music...