Word: belascos
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...would Guitry be so popular here? Because the American public demands a high standard of acting. Belasco fills his theatres because he always stages a finished production. The day of the good actor is coming back stronger than ever. There has been a great change in the last three or four years. People are reading a better class of book. I don't mean heavy literature. I mean light literature of a better sort. Naturally they want to see better plays and better acting. A play like "Anna Christie" would be three times as popular now as it was when...
...Laugh, Clown, Laugh!" David Belasco, occult archimage of the theatre, has muttered incantations over an ancient artifice and whisked away the curtain cloth to disclose it as a new play of absorbing intensity. Fausto Martini's "Ridi, Pagliaccio" (Italian) is the source; the story is that of Punchinello...
...staging is distinguished by all the art and artifice of the Belasco brain and workshops. A third act rainstorm renders all the stage rain shed hereabouts as the merest filmy drizzle in comparison. The stars are supported by a large cast in the style to which Belasco stars have been accustomed...
Tiger Rose. Ulric addicts will derive a curious mixture of sensations from this picture. The rare and radiant Lenore, whose wiry wickedness David Belasco has always turned to virtue just before the final curtain, has undergone a metamorphosis. Both her personality and appearance seem altered. She is still a good actress but Kiki no more. The play, many will remember, is No. 9,824 in the Canadian Royal Northwest Mounted Police stories. They always get their audience...
MARY, MART, QUITE CONTRARY- Mrs. Fiske and David Belasco cooperating pleasantly in high comedy by St. John Ervine...