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Leading lady of the piece is Lenore Ulric, who has finally come to light comedy after squirming and rasping through a decade of sin for the late David Belasco (Kiki, Lulu Belle, Mima). Her husband, Sidney Blackmer, plays opposite...
While hiring his talent in Manhattan, Director Golterman came across the most newsworthy member of his troupe-Helen Gahagan, who played the part of the hard-to-awaken operactress in David Belasco's last production, Tonight or Never and married Melvyn Douglas, her leading man (TIME, April 12). On the evening her play closed she met Director Golterman, expressed a wish to make her U. S. début in his company. In 15 min. a contract was drawn up and she announced: "I am happy to make my American début in Ohio because my grandmother...
...Kiki) are sufficiently significant for immortality. The glamour and daring of his earlier productions has been imitated and surpassed by more youthful competitors, making some of his most recent productions seem merely the queasiness of an old man. But as a character of the U. S. theatre. David Belasco has a good chance of enduring. He saw to that...
...David Belasco hastily wrote a play from Mr. Long's story, produced it successfully in Manhattan, transferred it to London. The stage manager of Covent Garden opera sent a message to famed Composer Giacomo Puccini that he had just the libretto for him. Puccini hastened to London, saw Madame Butterfly, wrote the opera...
...opportunities for barytone singing, maintains a placid demeanor as Bart Carter. Genevieve Tobin, who has become recognized as the most civilized home-wrecker of the talkies, sparkles pleasantly as Mildred. It's a Wise Child (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the minor stage contributions of the late David Belasco (see p. 28) was this obstetrical little farce, fragile and inoffensive, which deals glibly with a complicated case of mistaken pregnancy. As cinema, the obstetrical aspects are made to seem even more innocent by the writhing cuteness of Actress Marion Davies. Part of the comedy depends upon the fact that...