Word: bondio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Lady (produced by Dwight Deere Wiman & J. H. Del Bondio). Only the most rabid Manhattan sightseers have toiled uptown to inspect the handsome, aged Jumel Mansion. Great Lady is a "biography with music'' of the mansion's former chatelaine, high-stepping Madame Eliza Jumel. From being put in the stocks for misbehaving in Providence, R. I., Eliza went on to dally with a French cavalier, marry a French businessman, almost whisk Napoleon to the U. S. after Waterloo, curtsy before Louis XVIII of France and make a second marriage, late in life, with Aaron Burr...
...Ourselves (by E. M. Delafield; J. H. del Bondio & Joshua Logan, producers). Joshua Logan, a corpulent young man with more brains than money, first smelled greasepaint as a comedian with the Princeton Triangle Club a few years ago. Since then he has been doing bit parts and managerial work on Broadway. To See Ourselves is the first show he has produced and directed. It is also the U. S. theatrical premiére of Author E. M. Delafield (Elizabeth M. Dashwood), a capable, Grade B English literary lady (Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady in America), Both...
Nathaniel Lief and others; Haring & Del Bondio, producers) is not accompanied, as in the Of Thee I Sing lyric, with much hot-cha-cha. Instead, favoring the old Garrick Gaieties it runs to intellectual-looking chorus girls, bright antics, satire. Among its performers are cherubic Jerry Norris (an old Gaieties boy), Dorothy McNulty, Ann Seymour. Librettists and lyricists of the revue include Ogden Nash, Will Irwin, Frank Sullivan...