Word: clare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hope Hampton, onetime cinema actress, was dismissed at the eleventh hour. Critics say that neither had the essential domination to pay the role its due. With the exception of Wanda Lyon, the remainder of the company was ill selected. The humor of the event was in the hands of Clare Kummer who, contrary to her custom, did a dull job. The scenery, however, was superb; and the show emerged as the most beautiful in Manhattan. Unfortunately beauty and melody cannot carry an operetta unassisted...
...Clare Kummer was summoned to set to music her engaging comedy, Good Gracious, Annabelle. This will be remembered as a feathery adventure of an original young lady and a fierce cave man whom she reformed. It was chiefly characterization, unexpected remarks and utter nonsense. Apparently its elusive, airy quality confused Mr. Ziegfeld. He added toward the last a thunderous episode in slapstick and a beautiful ballet. The slapstick was funny and the ballet was a bore. The early episodes in the unadulterated Kummer quality made the show attractively successful...
...Angel is a young lady (Mildred Macleod) reared in such innocence that she discovers herself about to have a baby and can't imagine how she got that way. It seems she was at a ball and swooned, or something. Through the machinations of her flint-faced aunt (Clare Eames) the culprit is revealed and forced to marry her. Finally they fall in love...
Annabelle?Billie Burke will be starred by her husband, Florenz Ziegfeld, in a new musical comedy by Clare Kummer. The comedian is Ernest Truex...
Billie Burke will return to the stage this September in a musical comedy by Clare Kummer-all of it: book, lyrics and music. The Burke husband, Florenz Ziegfeld, is the producer, and Annabelle the tentative title...