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...laughed oftener and harder (not louder) than Lady Isabella Howard, wife of the British Ambassador, at The Midde March, salty Shubert-Belasco comedy about British tars and such...
...Orpheum and Proctor circuits she played in the cast of The Girl from Utah in England, then in another play or two, then back to vaudeville, then in the Follies of 1915 and 1916. Ziegfeld, who liked her imitations, let her do one of Marie Odile, star of a Belasco play then current. David Belasco saw her and gave her the leading role next season in Polly with a Past...
...keep, a reputation in the serious theatre. Unlike the numerous slightly or violently dowdy ladies whose one claim to distinction after youth has. passed is that they, were once members of a Follies chorus', she found musical comedy more than a means for leaving the stage. Schooled by Belasco-who has so often seen talent where other producers saw nothing at all-she had a series of successes in comedy dramas of a sophistication suited to her flexible, quick voice and the knowing angle of her head in its paintbrush swirl of blonde hair (The Gold Diggers, Grounds...
...Diggers of Broadway has virtues: it is well-dressed, ambitious, brightly colored, energetic; it has some passable tunes in it, and the chorus dances nicely. It fails because the story-framework is not adequate to the demands made on it. Expert playing by Ina Claire and directing by David Belasco got The Gold Diggers across on the legitimate stage. Miss Claire's role is taken in the picture by a good-looking but not particularly talented young woman named Nancy Welford. Inevitably the feeble gaiety intended in the reversal of the first situation, with the rescuing guardian succumbing...
Lenore Ulric, actress, heard last week in Hollywood that Sidney Blackmer, her leading man last winter in the Belasco production Mima, had announced that he and she got married on May 23 at her Harmon, N. Y., home. Emphatically she declined to confirm the marriage, refused to talk about it. Gilda Gray, mentioned by Actor Blackmer as a witness, drawled to newspaper men: "I cannot recall any such wedding...