Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...animals at all, the supers were ludicrously spindly-shanked and awkward, the scenery an arrangement of posts and draperies which seemed often to confuse the performers. Nonetheless many a Manhattanite had journeyed tediously to 155th Street to see the second U. S. operatic performance of lissome, dark Helen Gahagan, Belasco actress (Tonight or Never) turned singer. New Jersey-born, Brooklyn-raised, Actress Gahagan has been called by Colyumist Heywood Broun "ten of the twelve most beautiful women on the American stage." She made her operatic debut in Czechoslovakia, sang first in the U. S. during Cleveland's opera last...
...stage ceiling. Paunchy Tenor Paul Althouse entered with willowy, blonde Soprano Jeannette Vreeland and dark, smiling Contralto Rose Bampton. Finally came Philadelphia's Conductor Leopold Stokowski, wearing the full black cravat which, with his halo of light hair, makes him look like an erect, dandified David Belasco out of the age of inno- cence.* Philadelphia's Academy of Music stage was set in this fashion last week for the U. S. premiere of Gurrelieder, a choral-symphony by Austrian Arnold Schonberg, most extreme of all musical extremists. No fewer than 532 persons were required to give...
...underworld, they form an immediate picture of Edward G. Robinson operating a machine gun in Chicago, a distillery in Manhattan or a poker game in a Florida casino. Actually, however, the countenance of Edward G. Robinson is less wicked than Mongolian. Shrewdly cast in this old (David Belasco-Achmed Abdullah) melodrama of San Francisco's Chinatown, he needs no make-up to assure you that he is the heathen executioner of the Lem Sing Tong...
Tonight or Never is a case in point. The cast-with the exception of Alison Skipworth, Gloria Swanson and Boris Karloff, Frankenstein's monster, who herein plays a waiter-is the one which made the play a success in Manhattan when it was produced by the late David Belasco. The cinema, directed by Mervyn Leroy, differs from Mr. Belasco's production mainly in the fact that Gloria Swanson performs more quietly than Helen Gahagan; her restraint makes the dialog seem more knowing than...
...organizer Mr. Dodge is well known through his work with the Tormentors which is an exclusive club conceived and organized through Mr. Dodge's influence. This club has its headquarters in New York City and includes such people as Frank A. Vanderlip, David Belasco, William Gillette, Charles Dana Gibson, and Professor John Erskine...