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...advance agent for a minstrel show. But unlike his brilliant brother Charles (lost on the Lusitania in 1915), who organized huge nationwide theatre combines, he limited his productions to Manhattan and, after 1885, chiefly to one theatre. In the roster of his great Lyceum Theatre Stock Company (with David Belasco as stage manager) were E. H. Sothern, Julia Marlowe, Richard Mansfield, Maude Adams, Henry Miller, many another illustrious name. Though Uncle Dan retired from active producing in 1911, he remained a shrewd, vigorous Broadway counselor and leader, on first nights descending from his penthouse above the Lyceum Theatre to call...
...Bros.) is the late Mrs. Leslie Carter, darling of U. S. theatre audiences during the gargoyled era at the turn of the Century. Revived for screen biography by yellow-haired Miriam Hopkins, she appears for cinemaudiences as a talentless, whining, ungrateful Trilby to mop-headed, cleric-collared Producer David Belasco's (Claude Rains) Svengali...
...great actress or a notorious curiosity is still a moot point among theatrical greybeards. Warner Bros., rather than classifying Mrs. Carter, merely add another volume to the screen's countless observations on show business. Out of a welter of stock theatrical characters, only Rains's David Belasco and a blustering boardinghouse keeper played by Helen Westley emerge entertainingly. Claude Rains draws a penetrating bead on the egotistical Broadway impresario. Helen Westley's corned-beef-&-cabbage exterior provides many a welcome guffaw...
...Washington, Patriot Rainer quickly took charge. She brought her own director, German-born Erwin Piscator ("The Belasco of Berlin"), from Manhattan...
...glittering night last week. Manhattan's theatregoers offered to pay up to $50 a seat to get into the venerable Belasco Theatre. They went to sit through something Chicago had been howling over for 33 weeks: John Barrymore, the Waning Profile, making a travesty of a play that travestied his own career. In a sense they were disappointed. My Dear Children was definitely not up to the low standard it attained in Chicago (TIME...