Word: chatterton
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...year-old candy box. It was sad for Barrie, because it showed that time has beaten those early imaginings of his. It was sad for Basil Dean, English director, because it showed (as in Hassan and Peter Pan) that he is second rate. It was chiefly sad for Ruth Chatterton, of whom Alexander Woollcott wrote: "Compared with this unhappy event [Miss Chatterton's playing], the selection of Marilyn Miller seemed nothing short of inspired." Maude Adams alone got praise...
...Maude Adams who, in 1897, first appeared as Lady Babbie. It was her first production as a star under the old Charles Frohman regime. Both actress and play were deemed discoveries. These facts, of course, made Miss Chatterton's hurdle higher. She summoned all her sweetness, all her coquetry and even a few of the music-hall mannerisms she acquired in the late and unlamented Magnolia Lady. She did not get over the hurdle...
Married. Ruth Chatterton, 28, famed actress, to Ralph Forbes, 24, Britisher now playing as her leading man in The Magnolia Lady...
...Magnolia Lady. Ruth Chatterton is not a good musical comedienne. She sings only mildly and dances doubtfully. Her charm is forced a trifle out of focus by the unfamiliar medium and her emotional accomplishments are not required. Her experiment behind an orchestra is therefore declared an error...
...hampered somewhat, it is true, by a leisurely and meagerly humored book. The music, too, was uneventful. The combination was based on the kindly comedy Come out of the Kitchen, in which Miss Chatterton starred some seasons past...