Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Left. By David Belasco, theatrical producer (TIME, May 25, 1931): $1,249,144 (shrunk to $621,162 last June); mostly to his Daughter Reina, wife of Producer Morris Gest...
...Alien Corn--Belasco, 44th Street W.--The glamorous Katharine Cornell as college music teacher in the allen corn of a small middle-West town. An unusual story superbly acted...
When the audience at Manhattan's Belasco Theatre one night this week threw away programs, reached for hats & coats and made for the doors, neither spectators nor reviewers were quite sure how good a play they had seen. Criticism is the wife of Comparison, and there never was a play like this one on Broadway. But one thing is certain. No one will soon forget Katharine Cornell's Lucrece...
...letter year of Actress Cornell's theatrical career. As Sydney in A Bill of Divorcement she rationalized, idealized the post-War flapper. Next came two costume parts (in Will Shakespeare and Casanova), two mistakes (The Way Things Happen, The Outsider), a scarlet misstep with David Belasco (Tiger Cats), and then Candida. George Bernard Shaw has never met Katharine Cornell. One look at her photograph, however, and the bearded sage of Adelphi Terrace pronounced her the best Candida who ever played the part...
...anyone predicted that he would ever receive one of the gold statuets which symbolize the Academy's approval. At the University of Wisconsin he was football manager and a member of the track team. When he was graduated in 1920, he went to work in a Manhattan bank. David Belasco gave him a part in Debonair that autumn; he has been an actor ever since. His resemblance to John Barrymore helped him in Hollywood; his first really important picture was The Royal Family of Broadway. In Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde he writhed and gibbered in a role that John Barrymore...