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...that reached its height in the spectacular Drury Lane melodramas in which frail heroines were pursued through burning forests and over real waterfalls, in which locomotives and galloping horses cluttered the stage. Nor was there any exhibit to remind spectators of the painfully accurate productions of the late David Belasco. The entire modern school of stage design stems from a reaction against the fustiness of these spectacles...
...Frohman was one of Manhattan's most astute and successful theatrical producers. He started as a mailroom wrapper on the New York Tribune when Horace Greeley owned it, later became advance agent for Callender's Original Georgia Minstrels. When he started producing for himself, he gave David Belasco his first New York job, as stage manager, Frohman managed the late E. H. Sothern for nearly 25 years, leased the old Lyceum Theatre to house his famed stock company which played in such successes as The Wife, Lord Chumley, The Prisoner of Zenda. He also ran the famed...
Left. By David Belasco, theatrical producer (TIME, May 25, 1931): $1,249,144 (shrunk to $621,162 last June); mostly to his Daughter Reina, wife of Producer Morris Gest...
...Alien Corn--Belasco, 44th Street W.--The glamorous Katharine Cornell as college music teacher in the allen corn of a small middle-West town. An unusual story superbly acted...
...letter year of Actress Cornell's theatrical career. As Sydney in A Bill of Divorcement she rationalized, idealized the post-War flapper. Next came two costume parts (in Will Shakespeare and Casanova), two mistakes (The Way Things Happen, The Outsider), a scarlet misstep with David Belasco (Tiger Cats), and then Candida. George Bernard Shaw has never met Katharine Cornell. One look at her photograph, however, and the bearded sage of Adelphi Terrace pronounced her the best Candida who ever played the part...