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...Dave Belasco, who was responsible for most of the platitude and superficiality that haunts the American theatre to this day, had a very apt pupil in Cecil B. DeMille. The satellite moved to Hollywood to prove that any extravaganza the master had put over on the stage could be made twice as gaudy and twice as profitable on the screen. DeMille succeeded--time and again--and his latest nightmare, mercilessly entitled "Reap the Wild Wind," is now in its second week...
...still primarily interested in grosses. So is De Mille. That's why he went into the business and made his first picture (The Squaw Man) in 1913. A frustrated actor, son of successful and knowing show folk, he had already had his artistic wings clipped-by David Belasco, who purchased and took credit for a play (The Return of Peter Grimm) which De Mille wrote...
...Part of the Treasury works in the three top floors of the Raleigh Hotel. Treasury files are kept in the famed old Belasco Theatre, across Lafayette Square from the White House...
...David Belasco: "He is, God love him, as foolish...
...show involved more theatrical hokum than Belasco cooked up in a life time; jiltings, blackmailings, fake marriages, et al. Last week reality caught up with it. Heavy with her third child by her third husband, Swimmer Peter Pick, Daughter Donna ran through her lines as Marge one day, died 14 and a half hours later in Englewood, N. J. delivering...