Word: courtesans
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...play (Courtesan) with but one actress (Elsa Shelley) was presented and ran less than a week...
...reminded of Actress Claudette Colbert (TIME, April 28). Because she is an admirer of Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and because of the vulgar significance which attaches itself to the word "broad," two years ago she changed her name, which had been Bertha Broad. Critics thought her performance in Courtesan a trifle vociferous but capable...
...says Author Wilder, is based on the Andria, comedy of Latin Playwright Terence (circa 185-159 B. c.) which in turn was based on two lost plays by Greek Playwright Menander (342-291 B. c.). On Brynos, one of the lesser islands of the Greek Archipelago, lives Chrysis the courtesan, the woman from Andros. She is the scandal of the island, not because of her loose behavior, for she is both dignified and circumspect, but by her "airs and graces." She gives weekly banquets, to which she invites all the most attractive young men: they discuss high matters of philosophy...
...barroom. It concerns the adventures of Jake Smith, wealthy Long Island 'legger, with his wife, daughter and three bleary cronies on an expedition to Paris. Playwright Marquis devises considerable fun with the vagaries of ignorant and besotten men in contact with an approachable countess and a haughty courtesan, but most of his intended climaxes are weak, he never gets very far from orthodox, outworn farce...
...Edward VII, went backstage at the Varietes. He was led through a gloomy cavern of stained canvas, ropes, flaring lamps. The air was pungent, draughty, filled with the cloying scent of women doused with violent perfumes. The blond prince entered the dressing room of the leading lady, a famed courtesan. She greeted him with coy, voluptuous respect, in tantalizing deshabille. The little dressing room was filled with starchy gentlemen, shouting amid the gay popping of corks. To one side stood a myopic, corpulent, bearded figure. His squinting eyes turned ceaselessly, his nostrils twitched. He was Emile Zola, novelist...