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...that the play is safely lodged in the independently operated Belasco, Trio does not invite condemnation. A serious study of a young girl pinioned by a dominating Frenchwoman she hates and at last set free by meeting a young man she comes to love, the play is largely psychological drama, a battle of wills rather than libidos. It has some interesting scenes, tense moments, grown-up talk. But it is unconvincing - contrived where it should seem inevitable, melodramatic where it should be intense. Indeed, were Trio a normal rather than abnormal triangle play, much of its tone and technique would...
...Listen, kid! I've done everything in the theater except marry a property man. I've been a soubrette in burlesque and I've accompanied stereopticon slides. I've acted for Belasco and I've laid 'em out in rows at the Palace. I've doubled as an alligator; I've worked for the Shuberts; and I've been joined to Billy Rose in the holy bonds. I've painted the house boards and I've sold tickets and I've been fired by George M. Cohan...
...Moore started her career at 17 by running away from a Washington music school where she had been studying singing. In Manhattan, like hundreds of other stage struck youngsters, she made the rounds of the casting offices. But she had a stronger will than most. When she crashed David Belasco's office and recited the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, he advised her to stick to music. The agent for the Aborn Opera Company was less kindly: "The voice may be okay," he said, "but lift your skirt, girlie, so I can see the legs...
...great theater district of the future was taking root. The new Empire Theater seemed a rather ambitious venture, even for Producer Charles Frohman and his famous stock company. It was baptized with a melodrama laid in an Army post, called The Girl I Left Behind Me (by David Belasco and Franklyn Fyles). When the Empire celebrated its soth birthday last week it was the oldest and most distinguished legitimate theater on Broadway, and way downtown...
...first real door in a flat, and the first real rug on the floor, to the amazement of both company and audience, and started preaching the jehad of Realism. His ideal was to show everything on the stage, to leave nothing to the imagination. His disciple was David Belasco, who gave tremendous impetus to the movement and at one time put a complete Child's restaurant on the stage. Belasco in turn handed it on to his pupil who taught it to the motion pictures. This man is still with us, and when last seen was engaged in giving...