Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ambassador has contrived such varied aids to modern life as self-winding watches, shock absorbers and mine-detecting devices; but his greatest love is the theater. Leaning back behind his cluttered desk in Manhattan this week, he spoke enthusiastically of his longtime friendship with impresarios Morris Gest and David Belasco...
Judging by the new play at the Copley this week, Ruth Gordon, the actress, should get herself a new playwright. And, at the same time, Ruth Gordon, the playwright, should put away her copy of Arthur Wing Pinero or Henry Arthur Jones and accept the report that Belasco is dead. "The Leading Lady," the play involving the two Miss Gordons (both of whom are married to the play's director--which suggests a dilemma more interesting than the current play) is an unreal bit of pink fluff that might be found floating about in the mind of some stage-struck...
Actors' Equity has forbidden all its actors to play at the' National, Washington's only legitimate theater, after Aug. 1, unless the National opens its doors to Negroes. Last week the Federal Works Agency made another theater available: the old Belasco Theater,* now a storehouse for Treasury records. Likely proviso: the highest bidder must guarantee not to discriminate against Negroes...
...secret was there for anyone who would listen. Around the little Hotel San Luis on Havana's Belascoáin Street, the talk was loud & long about "going to Santo Domingo to fight Trujillo." Mostly the talkers were young Cubans out for adventure and a chance to strike at dictatorship. Some may have been Communists; some were Communism's most ardent enemies. But there were also Dominicans. For weeks Dominican exiles had been trickling into Havana, by plane and boat from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Guatemala. Something was up, and that something was a filibuster...
Died. Minnie Dupree, 72, blonde toast of Broadway (The Music Master, with David Warfield) in the era of David Belasco and Richard Mansfield, veteran of a 60-year stage, screen and radio career; in Manhattan...