Word: cleopatras
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...choruses will, in all probability, appear as maids-in-waiting on Cleopatra, imitating her wiles, or as their modern sisters on Broadway. Work on the show has been held up a great deal by football and cross-country, but competitions for the pants are expected to begin soon, and rehearsals will probably start directly after the Yale game...
...LIFE AND TIMES OF CLEOPATRA, QUEEN OF EGYPT-Arthur Weigall-Putnam ($5.00). The story of Anthony and Cleopatra, immortalized by Shakespeare, would seem so well known as to make repetitions unnecessary. Yet Egyptologist Weigall has created a book that all will delight in reading. His characters live again in the pageant of the past. He has entered the spirit of Egypt and has portrayed with consummate skill and a sympathetic pen the great characters that entered into the life of the proud Ptolemy Queen. It is a fine example of interpretive history, in which events are made the creations...
...maiden aunts of Madrid tut-tutted while the roués pooh-poohed; it was bruited that Director Primo Rivera, real ruler of Spain, was riding for a fall. That Anthony had had his life blighted by a caressing Cleopatra was no reason why Primo should follow suit, so thought the prudish ones. Others, in true Latin form, made light of the matter, dismissing it with an expressive shrug of the shoulders. The truth was, so the rumor ran, that Primo had fallen in love, which, in the best circles, is not considered orthodox for a married man. La Caoba...
...Cleopatra, as all the world knows, got Antony into a lot of trouble. Anna seems to be doing her worst for Léon. Next, the fascinating Simanova may well be expected to blight the happiness of Commissar Tchicherin of the Soviet Foreign office...
...contrast between the different scenic effects in the two acts of "Who's Who" is one of the most startling imaginable. While that in the second act is most gorgeous and elaborate, the first act is played on an undecorated stage. The comedy skit "Antony and Cleopatra" is the high spot of the first act and yet the colored comedians perform as if in rehearsal, on the bare boards...