Word: bordoni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have had some experience with movie acting in France, and it makes me sick even to go into a studio," Irene Bordoni said to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday in the ornate parlor of her suite in the Touraine Hotel. The interview came as the result of a moment's backstage conversation with Miss Bordoni after the opening performance of "Naughty Oinderella," in which she is now playing in Boston. Miss Bordoni continued with that intriguing French accent which has become famous on the stage, "After I leave Boston I am going to the coast to fulfill a short contract...
...Miss Bordoni then turned from her dislike of the movies to a discussion of popular winter resorts. "The Riviera and Nice may be wonderful resorts, but no place on earth can approach the delights of Palm Beach. The climate on the Riviera is bad; in the sun you throw aside all your clothes, while nearby in a shaded street you have to be carefully wrapped in furs. But Palm Beach; just give me five months a year in Palm Beach--. Some one said I talked as though I was trying to sell real estate, but though I buy, I never...
...Naughty Cinderella" there were many terse, epigrammatic phrases, and also much broad, slap-stick comedy. The CRIMSON reporter asked Miss Bordoni which got across best with the average audience. "The slap-stick, as you call it, everytime makes the bigger; impression. That is because there are always more people upstairs than down...
When questioned about the apparently accidental breaking of a chair in the second act of "Naughty Cinderella" Miss Bordoni said. "On the opening night in Atlantic City it happened by accident, and the laugh was so tremendous that we could not get the attention of the audience for the rest of the evening. After that we made it part of the regular play...
...really one just has to have one. It's being done. Colds and moral turpitude are quite the thing, positively the dernier cri. So this column must suffer--from a Cold-in-the-Head. That and the asperin which goes with it. Funny thing, asperin. Asperin plus Irene Bordoni makes "Mmmmm--Do I Love you?" rob the brain of any efficiency what so ever. But probably some one will think this is polyphonic prose or a time table and get something out of it, so after all what...