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...Band meets every week for an hour and a half on Wednesday evening and Friday afternoon, but Berton said that even with such limited practice the Band has become the New Yorker's "Favorite Outdoor Musical Outfit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAND CALLS '44 MUSICIANS | 9/20/1940 | See Source »

...headed Mrs. Leslie Carter. In 1920, Zaza became an opera for Geraldine Farrar. In 1923, Gloria Swanson was Zaza in a silent picture. A favorite item in the repertory of stock-company leading ladies the world over, Zaza has been running off & on ever since Playwrights Pierre Berton and Charles Simon wrote it, has probably alarmed more censors than any other single drama in the 20th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Zaza | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

With its setting in a small Wyoming town of the early 1900's, the story centers around the difficult situation of a young man named Ben Harvey, chosen as a dark horse candidate to compete for prosecuting attorney against the pompous Judge Rigby (Berton Churchill), father of the girl with whom he is in love. The ensuing contest results in a break-up of the love affair, leaving the audience in suspense as to the outcome. But in the end the difficulty is patched up in an unexpected but delightful manner. The antics of Stepin Fetchit add considerably...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/8/1935 | See Source »

...Judge Priest is admirably suited to Will Rogers. He seems to be almost wishing that he really were Judge Priest. Anita Louise is a Greuse-like decoration and as usual has no real part to show whether she can act or not. Tom Brown is young and enthusiastic. Berton Churchill has an irritating charm and ebullience all his own and is a perfect foil for the rugged honesty of the Priest famille...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

...BERTON BRALEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Sep. 3, 1934 | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

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