Word: cake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kitchenette adjoining the room was littered with gin and whiskey bottles. On the table was a half-eaten angel cake. On the floor of the room were some of Kelly's sawed-off machine guns, weapons he had learned to use after listening to the tales of oldtime racketeers in Leavenworth Penitentiary. In another room the officers found Mrs. Kelly, 29, disguised in a red wig, her face bearing the telltale scar of a blow her husband once gave her. "We've been celebrating our third anniversary," she explained. "A swell celebration! Just swell...
...Harris the Shuberts will produce The Green Bay Tree, a play about sexual abnormality calculated to shock as thoroughly as did The Captive. A sequel to Of Thee I Sing, by the same authors and with the same cast, will appear soon, to be called Let 'Em Eat Cake. Frederick Lonsdale's new play, Foreigners, will be given a production by Arch Selwyn. Maria Jeritza, a rich musical comedy personality, will be seen in the operetta Jerry. Dwight Wiman and Lawrence Langner are reviving Strauss's Die Fledermaus with Peggy Wood and Helen Ford singing the leads...
Inveterate theatergoers will find Boston dull this next week. Of course they can still go to see "Biography" or "Let Em Eat Cake" if they have not done so already; the former is the more finished product. Gershwin, Gershwin, Ryskind, Kaufman, and Sam Harris; the combination should have been able to produce another hit equally as good as "Of Thee I Sing," but success seems to make writers a little stale; this brings me to Mr. O'Neill...
...primary purpose of the theater is to entertain and amuse," declared Victor Moore, famed comedian who again is portraying the role of the ineffectual Throttlebottom in "Let 'Em Eat Cake" at the Shubert Theater, the sequel to "Of Thee 1 Sing." in an interview last night...
...Manhattan capitalist, charitarian, motored out to the Peekskill camp where he entertains 300 poor children every summer. There he listened to a little girl's speech of congratulations, read a telegram from his friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt, drank three glasses of stout. News photographers had his enormous birthday cake brought outdoors, snapped him plunging a knife into it. Wearied by the noise and excitement, Charitarian Heckscher wandered down to the swimming pool, suddenly collapsed on its edge. Revived, he was taken back to Manhattan to recuperate. Also ill last week lay: Film Actress Claudette Colbert, after an appendectomy...