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...there were the ushers, suave and important with gardenias; there were the punch bowls overflowing; there were great cascading bouquets. There were laughing faces and broken hearts and heels. There were immaculate dress shirts, and a soiled white dress. There was the fanfare of an orchestra and the husky croon of a singer. There were tinkling glasses and the dull thud of a bass drum. There was the ecstacy of a first dance, there was the boredom of a thousand. There was the lonely terrace and the crowded ballroom. There were long, embrassing conversations; there were short, embrassing silences. There...
...discovered, developed, dropped Blanche Bates, Frances Starr, Ina Claire, Lenore Ulrich. Leo Dietrichstein and David Warfield also owe their careers to Producer Belasco. As carefully as he cultivated his famed Anglican clerical costume,* Producer Belasco fostered the properties, attitudes, legends which identified him. At times he was apt to croon about himself and his profession: "I am a mother at heart." At other times he was obsessed with a persecution mania, declaiming against imaginary slanderers: "I'd like to know who started all that talk. I'm sick and tired of it. I'd kick him around...
Having cornered all of the student concessions, made himself a pile of money, patched up the lovers' quarrel, Mr. Holtz makes an ingratiating grimace at the audience and the show ends. Best tunes: "You Said It," "Learn to Croon." Best hoofing: by the easy-going Slate Brothers. Miss Lawlor (Queen High, Good News) and her handsome friend Stanley Smith of Hollywood (The Sophomore, Sweetie) do very nicely...
GRITNY PEOPLE-R. Emmet Kennedy-Dodd-Mead ($2.50). Author Kennedy brings the colored talent of Gretna, across the river from New Orleans, to Aunt Susan's cookshop where they tell their tales and croon their tunes. The reader may be gripped with pathos, shaken with laughter-if he escapes suffocation in the cloud of dialect which pervades the book from cover to cover. There is also a spirit of ineffable quaintness at times a bit trying. Gritny People is, perhaps, less fiction than a study of primitive Negro character and lore...
With the Civil War fading into legend, the ordinary northern U. S. citizen takes a sentimental attitude toward the South. It is the land of sleepy, gentle plantations. There Cotton is King; white men are colonels; lazy colored men lie on their backs and croon "Massa's in de col', col' groun'" up at a beautiful orange moon; and colored mammies are kissing babies & making pancakes. That conception received last week a rude jolt from Dr. Julius Klein, able chief of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. At Memphis, Mr. Klein delivered...