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Picked out of a 5?-&-10? store by a suave gentleman crook (William Powell), Fay Cheyney is willing to undertake stealing a pearl necklace from a Duchess until the ease with which she fits into the duchess' social circle makes her mission seem both humiliating and unnecessary. Lord Kelton (Frank Morgan), the richest peer in England, as well as young Lord Billing have proposed to her on the evening when, out of well-bred loyalty to her accomplices, she cracks the duchess' safe. When Lord Billing surprises her in the act of handing over her booty...
Died. Charles Bancroft Dillingham, 66, theatrical producer; of arteriosclerosis; in Manhattan. In 36 years he produced more than 200 plays (Mlle Modiste, Chin-Chin, Blossom Time, Sunny, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney). In 1914 he took over Manhattan's big Hippodrome where he installed skating rinks, swimming tanks, staged extravagant spectacles with skating, diving, aerial ballets. Headliners who first appeared on the Hippodrome stage included Annette Kellerman, Anna Pavlova, Gaby Deslys...
...homely, skinny child of eleven. She was pelted with flowers and kisses when she later played in Berlin in Shaw's Saint Joan. To learn English, Actress Bergner rehearsed in London in a play especially written for her, abandoned it to act successively in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Strange Interlude, The Constant Nymph. Currently she is in Escape Me Never, a companion piece to The Constant Nymph which will bring her to Manhattan this spring. When this opened, critics talked of another Duse but some galleryites booed, under the impression that Miss Bergner is a Nazi...
...number of prominent historians are contributing to the series, including graduates of Harvard and members of the University faculty. The historians contributing to this project in the order of the volumes each will write include: Professor E. P. Cheyney, of the University of Pennsylvania; Professor Ernest Nelson; Professor Wilhelm Pauck of the University of Chicago; Reverend Mr. R. H. Lord '06, assistant professor of Government; C. J. Friedrick; Miss Violet Barbour, of Vassar; Professor L. B. Packard '09, of Amherst; Professor Penfield Roberts '16; Professor Walter Dorn; Professor Leo Gershoy; C. C. Brinton '19, assistant professor of History; Professor...
...Gerald du Maurier and other notables in the British theatre's heyday. He first went to the U. S. to act Love Among The Lions, in 1910. Since then he has lent his amiable presence to Peg O' My Heart, Bull-Dog Drummond, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, The First Mrs. Fraser...