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TIME rarely betrays its incredible youthfulness. But anyone over forty would recall that it was not Minnie Aladdern Fiske (TIME, Aug 19) but Mrs. Leslie Carter who in 1895 swung herself and David Belasco to fame in The Heart of Maryland...
...belfry bell to silence the news that her prisoner-lover has escaped. In the play, her first success, Mrs. Carter let down her bright red hair and swung 229 times in Manhattan in 1895, 96 times in London in 1898. In Mrs. Carter's later plays, David Belasco always arranged a scene in which she could undo her hair. Hence the favorite remark of the 1890's: "Let's go to the new Belasco play and see Mrs. Carter let her hair down...
...commission for the enormous murals in Trenton's City Hall by building an eight-foot model of the building, through the windows of which the late John Roebling (wire rope) was delighted to discover a reproduction of his own Factory No. 9. He decorated the interior of the Belasco Theatre in Manhattan, has been art director for three cinema companies. And, best of all, he is the author of one of the most successful burlesques ever written: Hazel Weston, or More Sinned Against Than Usual. This Shinnanigan has been played continuously for 23 years and translated into seven languages...
...general. A civilian again, he married, took his bride to the U. S. to set up for himself. In Lynbrook, Long Island, he started a tiny restaurant which soon became a famed resort of Manhattan gourmets. J. P. Morgan Sr., Diamond Jim Brady, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Theodore Roosevelt, David Belasco were among his clientele. Prohibition nearly ruined Henri, drove him in disgust back to France. Repeal brought him back again. Last year he opened his present restaurant in Rockefeller Center, Manhattan...
...vaudeville containing but few sparks of real entertainment. Vanderbilt and Daye are fairly good dancers and have created a dance to the rumba rhythm which is at least different. Ranny Weeks and his orchestra are mildly entertaining and manage to sound quite a bit like New York's Leon Belasco...