Word: belasco
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...York World into leading editorial and front page protest, it must be fairly grimy. For the World, as everyone knows, is the loud speaker of anticensorship. And yet the World says of A Good Bad Woman: "Messrs. William A. Brady and Al. Woods have dug even deeper [than David Belasco] into the pile of dramatic offal...
...various intimate scenes and the incredible flood of epithets aroused the critics' and the World's protest. They were deliberate panderings to the shoddy instincts of the masses. Unlike the similar display of Mr. Belasco (Ladies of the Evening), the scenes were never entertaining...
Ladies of the Evening. For a season or two, irreconcilables have been fuming at the Belasco tradition. "I'm going to get something on him. if it takes all season," remarked one. That was last year: and Mr. Belasco came through fairly favorably. This year, the skies have darkened. David Belasco produced Tiger Cats-a dull and savage diatribe against women. He produced The Harem-a. dull and dangerous farce about seduction. Finally, he has produced Ladies of the Evening, a play frankly, almost viciously, pornographic. Cognoscenti assert that Mr. Belasco has fared unfavorably in finance of late...
...York World (in an editorial)-"Mr. Belasco has tried hard to make himself rich. He has made himself absurd and contemptible...
...opera Le Villi was successfully performed at La Scala, Milan. His next work, Edgar, was a failure; but he won note with Manon Lescaut, and international fame with La Bohème. Tosca and Madame Butterfly followed. The Girl of the Golden West, based on a drama by David Belasco, produced at the Metropolitan with Caruso and Emmy Destinn, did not long survive,* nor did the three short operas Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi, given their première at the Metropolitan six years ago. These latter failures could detract little from his fame. Tosca...