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Died. Henry Belasco, San Francisco Post Office worker, brother of famed Producer David Belasco; in San Francisco. During his ascendancy, Brother David gave Brother Henry the post of doorkeeper at the Alcazar Theatre in San Francisco. Brother Henry held the post for 25 years...
Married. Ernestine Altman, orphan niece of famed Manhattan Lawyer Max D. Steuer ("Belasco of the Bar"); and Leonard Golding, Manhattan broker; in New York City Hall, by Mayor James John Walker. It was the fourth time Mayor Walker had performed such a ceremony. He absented himself from a discussion of city transit unification. Said he: "Since this is another unification job, I don't think I can be accused of shirking the city's business...
Mima. David Belasco is the grand old man of the U.S. theatre. To prove this, he wears a turn-around collar and permits himself to be photographed frequently with a benign facial expression. Like Flo Ziegfeld, George M. Cohan and certain other producers, he is never publicly designated as ridiculous. For the last few weeks, articles have appeared in news-sheets telling how "the Dean of the American Stage is working day and night, transforming his theatre into a veritable Hades," how "Belasco's version of Ferenc Molnar's Mima costs $300,000 to present," and lastly...
...dinner for him. Interesting and incredible, the play was chiefly remarkable for the stage devices it contained; stage devices, since the invention of the cinema, are less potent than they used to be to evoke illusions and it was in displaying his unique skill in their construction that Producer Belasco really sang his swan song...
...skill in making actors out of individuals like Jack Dempsey or even Lenore Ulric is a less rare but more valuable one. When he watched Lenore Ulric display her manikinetic tricks to Satan's jury, Producer Belasco must have smiled to himself, for it was he, not "Dr. Magister," who taught her how to do them. A little girl from Minnesota who had played in stock in Milwaukee, she came to Manhattan and played in The Mark of the Beast. After that, Belasco got her and has had her ever since. Tiger Rose, in 1917, made her very famous...