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Tonight or Never is a case in point. The cast-with the exception of Alison Skipworth, Gloria Swanson and Boris Karloff, Frankenstein's monster, who herein plays a waiter-is the one which made the play a success in Manhattan when it was produced by the late David Belasco. The cinema, directed by Mervyn Leroy, differs from Mr. Belasco's production mainly in the fact that Gloria Swanson performs more quietly than Helen Gahagan; her restraint makes the dialog seem more knowing than...
...Dodge has had considerable experience in the dramatic world being closely allied with such men as Belasco, Crest, Shubert, and has had considerable influence in the promotion of the American Theater, being founder of the first American Theatre in Europe...
...organizer Mr. Dodge is well known through his work with the Tormentors which is an exclusive club conceived and organized through Mr. Dodge's influence. This club has its headquarters in New York City and includes such people as Frank A. Vanderlip, David Belasco, William Gillette, Charles Dana Gibson, and Professor John Erskine...
...suffered in a theatre; Prince Kemaleddine Hussein of Egypt, explorer and big game hunter, in the American Hospital, Cairo, following amputation of a leg; Morris Gest, theatrical producer, in Jamesburg, N. J., of a nervous collapse partially induced by grief over the death of his father-in-law, David Belasco; Cinemactor Tom Mix in Hollywood, of peritonitis following operation upon a ruptured appendix; Premier Ismet Pasha of Turkey, in Istanbul, of injuries suffered in an automobile crash ; Yale Footballer Albie Booth, in New Haven, of pleurisy; William Reynolds, 18, son of Richard Samuel Reynolds, onetime tobacco tycoon, in Great Neck...
...Pullman on its way from Manhattan to Chicago. The action, which starts off realistically enough, goes rapidly symbolic: Archangels Gabriel and Michael, other such un-humdrum figures appear. Of the other plays two ("Queens of France," "Love and How to Cure It") are farces; two out-realize Belasco...