Word: boucicault
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...villain still pursued her." Most painstaking search was for the script of Metamora: or, The Last of the Wampanoags, first actable U. S. drama about American Indians, and a favorite of Edwin Forrest. This week the Lost Plays series presents Flying Scud, one of six lost dramas by Dion Boucicault. Its claim to fame: the line "I've got to see a man about...
...Most successful 19th-Century playwright was famed Irish-born Dion Boucicault whose The Streets of New York played 2,800 times in all, London Assurance 2,900 times, The Colleen Bawn...
...first visit in nine years was stately Maxine Elliott (Jessie Dermot), 62, once famed as the most beauteous U. S. actress. Trained by Dion Boucicault, one of the numerous wives and leading ladies of Comedian Nat Good win, she became a star in 1903. When Ethel Barrymore met her in 1903, she exclaimed: "The Venus de Milo - with arms!" Maxine Elliott toured the U. S.. Australia, and England, won the favor of Britain's merry monarch Edward VII. A shrewd business woman who multiplied her earnings, she abruptly left the stage in 1920, eleven years after building Manhattan...
...About Women" are two of two-hundred-and-eight movies which will be produced at the University Theater in the year beginning January ninth, nineteen-hundred-and-thirty-three. If one were, in a moment of fancy, to imagine Terence and O'Neil, Goethe and Shakespeare, Sophocles and Dion Boucicault, together with half-a-hundred other master playwrights, scribbling off the output of Hollywood consumed in one year by the University Theater, it would still be hard to believe that all of the production would be absolutely tip-top. The fallacy, by which the effete critics are snared...
Thus ran an editorial in Harper's Weekly for Oct. 10, 1857. As uncannily close to present economic conditions as the Harper's editorial is The Streets of New York by Dion Boucicault, which also first saw the light of day in 1857. Revived with a triumphantly light touch by the New York Repertory Company, The Streets of New York is many a cut above any theatrical resurrection seen in and about Manhattan for seasons...