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...Gladys Swarthout seemed to have more logic some time ago when Miss Moore was a more important box-office draw. This version of the endeavor is a heavy-footed musical naively designed to combine the best features of jazz with those of the Viennese waltz. It concerns one Buzzy Bellew (Fred MacMurray), leader of a swing band which, reaching Vienna in a continental tour, ruins the business of the Franz & Elsa Strauss Waltz Palace. In the U. S. consulate, Elsa (Gladys Swarthout), who has gone there to complain about her rival's tactics, meets Buzzy, mistakes...
Promise (by Henry Bernstein; Gilbert Miller, producer). In 1907 Henry Bernstein's first Broadway production, The Thief, featured the late Kyrle Bellew, ran for nine months. His Melo, presented in 1931, gave Basil Rathbone two months' employment. Never the author of a distinguished play, Henry Bernstein in his native France is nevertheless a distinguished playwright, an able literary psychologist, a sensitive observer, a careful craftsman. It takes a little something more, however, to make a good play, and that, unanimously decided Manhattan reviewers, is what Promise...
...Press when she offered to lend Newfoundland $109,000.000 during its 1931 financial crisis (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931). A Brooklyn druggist said he had paid her $4,000 for a quarter-interest in twelve Newfoundland mines, later found they were owned by Montreal's Henry Cosgrove Bellew. Snapped Financier Lewis, leaving court: "When I get ready to talk there will be plenty to tell...
...published a personification of the U. S. (called Brother Jonathan) as a young mischievous fellow with his thumb to his nose. In the U. S. the first cartoon of Uncle Sam appeared in the New York Lantern, comic weekly, of March 13, 1852 (see cut). The artist was F. Bellew. The scene called "Raising the Wind" was supposed to depict the struggle between a U. S. shipowner against the Cunard Company, with John Bull actively helping his line and Uncle Sam a more amiable onlooker. Bellew's figure gained wide popularity and was taken over by Thomas Nast, cartoonist...
...second and last week of the engagement of Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew at the Columbia will begin March 11, and will undoubtedly be a repetition of the complete success during the past week. Mrs. Potter will be seen at her best as an emotional actress, and Mr. Bellew will also have excellent opportunities for showing the quality that is in him. The bill will be the younger Dumas's comedy of "Francillon" on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings. The comedy has been seen in Boston before, with both Mrs. Potter and Mr. Bellew...