Word: devall
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Boudoir (by Jacques Deval, produced by Jacques Chambrun) told of a Manhat tan adventuress of the '80s whose assorted bitchery was finally ended by the strangling hands of an Egyptian jewel thief. The play had blackout dullness inconceivable from the author of the glinting comedy Tovarich...
...White armies in their last-ditch fight against the Reds in the south of Russia in 1918-20, emerged from his Paris retirement last week to excoriate any "socalled White Russian" who would join Hitler to fight the Soviet Union. In a phrase reminiscent of Frenchman Jacques Deval's play Tovarich-which Adolf Hitler has seen three times-old General Denikin cried to an audience of fellow-exiles: "White or Red, our fatherland remains our fatherland. Whoever may aid Russia's enemies cannot call himself a patriot, no matter what ideological excuse he may use for taking money...
...producers may outlive the corn crops. Noteworthy rural premieres include Ward Green's Honey at Dennis; Hollywood Be Thy Name (by Myron Fagan, at Cape May); Let's Never Change (by Owen Davis, at Skowhegan); Tomorrow's Sunday (by Philo Higley, at Cohasset); Soubrette (by Jacques Deval, at Ogunquit); Made in Heaven (by Herbert Crocker, at Somerset, Pa.) ; Music at Evening (by Robert Nathan, at White Plains); Dame Nature (by André Birabeau, adapted by Patricia Collinge, at Westport...
...sound just like Miss Abba's, and he is just as splendid in his mad Russian gusto, although he shows the restraint befitting a prince consort. Equal praise is due the rest of the cast, as well as Robert Sherwood, who did the translation from the French of Jacques Deval...
...over the activities of a procuress (Junie Astor) who conducts her activities from the switchboard of the club. They finally suffered her to remain, after carefully editing the careers of the two girls she ensnares. The Sapphic inferences were noted in the character played by beauteous Else Argall, Author Deval's wife and a newcomer to cinema. Censorship deleted her best scene, which shows her successfully fighting the urge to join the girl of her desire. Considered fit for Manhattan cinemagoers was the shot in which she poisons the procuress-telephone operator. Playwright-Director Deval was in Manhattan last...