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...hundreds of characters which Producer David Belasco created and presented during his more than 50 years in the U. S. theatre, the greatest by far was David Belasco. For all the time that he was bringing new realities to the stage- placing live roses at the heroine's bed, using real antiques for historical settings- he was busy fictionizing himself. When he died in Manhattan last week, debilitated by a severe attack of pneumonia in November, his last words were: "Doctor, I am fighting for my life." So well had Producer Belasco warped the web of legend about himself...
Last week, on the eve of the marriage of Operatic Actress Helen Gahagan and Melvyn Douglas, stars of David Belasco's Tonight or Never, Producer Belasco, filled with loving-kindness after three months on a sickbed, announced: "It was a case of love at first sight. I've seen many romances in the theatre, but none so fine, so oldfashioned, so honest...
Surprised, theatre folk waited to see if Helen Gahagan would be starred in another Belasco play, for tradition dictates that any Belasco leading lady who marries, automatically leaves his service. Examples: Leslie Carter, Blanche Bates, Frances Starr, Katharine Cornell, Mary Ellis, Lenore Ulric...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A bachelor, lonely in his old age, invites his illegitimate children of various nationalities to come and live with him. One of them-the one he feels is most like him-turns out to be not his daughter after all. Such components were all right when Belasco produced The Bachelor Father on Broadway but they offered a grave moral problem to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. That great organization rose brilliantly to the emergency, however; they changed the bachelor into a married man. The comedy has lost some of its pace, but the circumloquacious dialog has a certain...
This can hardly be held against it, as long as it amuses, and yet comparing it to "The Bachelor Father," another and much more amusing endeavor of Dr. Belasco's, it ends up far in the ruck. The thin matter, of which the play is cast, happens in this case to be illegitimacy of birth, but in this instance it is prospective not retrospective...