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...five years the Little Theatre Tournament, held in Manhattan for the David Belasco Cup, has symbolized the removal of amateur theatricals from small-town drawing-rooms and carriage sheds to more or less formal theatres. The contestants produce one-act plays only, either new or published...
...Deck was extracted from an old Belasco play entitled Shore Leave, the plot of which charts the adventures of the hostess (Louise Groody) of a sailors' inn, who follows in the wake of Sailor Bilge Smith (Charles King), finally towing him away from all those sweethearts in every port to her own suddenly acquired opulence. In addition to merry tunes, jolly chorus, salty high-spirits, the show has the rarest quality of the season-humor. The Thief. In her fourth attempt of the year, talented Alice Brady has hit upon a revival. Henri Bernstein's play was written...
Examples of pure community self-expression, without fruits of creation, are the Dallas Little Theatre, strictly amateur, celebrated for its capture of the Belasco Cup for one-act productions the past three years; and the Pasadena Community Playhouse, where what counts is the number of citizens performing. The Boston Repertory, strictly professional, is an opposite type-a non-profit-making institution with a permanent staff and inveterate audience...
...greatest Americans, demanded to know which subscribed to TIME. May I suggest ten interesting Americans, not necessarily the most interesting, and inquire which subscribe ? list: H. L. Mencken James A. Reed William E. Borah Charles H. Mayo Nicholas Murray Butler John Erskine Graham McNamee* Will Rogers Alexander Woollcott David Belasco...
...your issue of Jan. 10, 1927, under PEOPLE, p. 28, David Belasco might also have told his interviewer...