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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. Three notable names combine to give this play preliminary prestige before the curtain, rises. David Belasco, foremost American producer for many years, will sponsor it; St. John Ervine, Irish novelist and playwright, is the author; Mrs. Fiske, Mother Superior of the order of American actresses, will be the star. Mr. Belasco will import an English leading man. The play is a modern comedy...
...Girl of the Golden West. This picture, by Puccini's opera, out of David Belasco's play, reveals movies prepared in the Rockies, seasoned with Mexican spurs and served with a garnishing of pistol shots. To make the result completely satisfactory, the cook (Director Edwin Carew) followed Belasco's original recipe carefully. Accordingly his play combines plausibility with excitement. For such a movie may the strange gods of Hollywood be praised...
...Belasco, Acting Queen of Love and Beauty, Awards First Prize...
Sing, 0 Muse, of the theatre, sing of Belasco, Belasco of many devices, who offered a silver trophy cup for the best performance given by any competing Little Theatre Group of the Metropolitan District! Sing a song of sixpence?a chanty of three $100 prizes awarded for those three groups of players deemed best by the gaffers sitting in judgment! Sing the lists?the trampled stage of the Nora Bayes Theatre?Ashby de la Zouch redivivus! Sing the embattled hosts...
...these the East-West Players were crowned first of all and received the Belasco trophy, given by mighty Belasco himself as acting Queen of Love and Beauty...