Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weary River", the current photoplay. Richard Barthelmess's pleasing singing voice is not marred in its new medium: Betty Compson's femininity is enhanced by the liquid notes falling from her sultry lips. The orchestral accompaniment adds to the realism of this juxtaposition of hard-boiled night life on Broadway and the reformatory influences of Sing Sing prison...
...Carlton Curtis, 43, a rich bachelor, was standing at the corner of 54th Street and Broadway, Manhattan, when he saw an automobile bearing down recklessly upon a 17-year-old Negro girl. He snatched her back to safety, found her lithe and vivacious, befriended her. She said her name was Letitia Ernestine Brown. For her he bought a small house in Freeport, L. I., where, she said, he solemnly took her hand, declared himself her husband and her his wife. On her he settled a secret fund of $250,000. About Freeport the two were known...
...played it a week in a theatre in London, sailed with it for the U.S. The company rehearsed all the way over on the boat. The players reached New York early last week, rested a day, made their debut in Great Neck, L.I., and, the following night, opened on Broadway...
Last week their trucks carried them into Manhattan and they did their unpacking at the little Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. There they gave as their first week's bill Sheridan's A Trip to Scarborough. It was too amateurish to compete with the more polished Broadway offerings−except as novelty...
Married. June (Howard-Tripp), British musical comedienne, lately starred on Broadway in Polly (a failure); and John Alan Burns, fourth Baron Inverdyde, 32, of Wemyss Castle, Renfrewshire; in London...