Word: chumley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairlie, for th' Jacobites, for Auld Scotia! Th' English canna dae tae Scrymgeour what they've done tae th' Cholmondeleys, th' Leveson Cowers, th' Majoribanks an' th' St. Johns, pronoonced Chumley, Leeson-Gore, Marshbanks an' Sinjin. Scrymgeour was just that afore th' Saxons landed. A rouse tae ye, TIME, but watch yer step...
...When he started producing for himself, he gave David Belasco his first New York job, as stage manager, Frohman managed the late E. H. Sothern for nearly 25 years, leased the old Lyceum Theatre to house his famed stock company which played in such successes as The Wife, Lord Chumley, The Prisoner of Zenda. He also ran the famed old Madison Square Theatre at which Harry Thaw murdered Stanford White in 1906. His last production was The Seven Sisters in 1911, when he was 60. Since his retirement, he had kept himself occupied by collecting dolls, playing as many...
...Pronounced as spelled, though Horatio Bottomley loved to tell how he once called on Lord Cholmondeley. was rebuked by the butler: ''You mean. Lord Chumley...
...opera. Opulently oriental, with an Aladdin-like plot out of the Arabian Nights, it was first performed in Paris in 1914, is pleasantly modern, sleekly and gracefully orchestrated. In it sang tall, reedy-voiced Soprano Yvonne Gall and Tenor Mario Chamlee who used to be Archer Ragland Cholmondeley (pronounced Chumley), born 39 years ago in Los Angeles. Charming but not brilliant, Mârouf might have caused no great stir had not the cover of its program been drawn by one of California's authentic Personages, Tennis Player Helen Wills Moody...