Word: ditrichstein
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fashions in Love (Paramount). Like all plays good enough to be imitated but not good enough to be classics, The Concert by Herman Bahr, presented long ago on the legitimate stage by Leo Ditrichstein, has been discredited by inept adaptations of some of its best effects. Fashions in Love is the screen name for The Concert. By any name it remains a very good farce. It is concerned with the marital infidelities of an elderly and temperamental pianist whose wife gets him back by the not wholly startling method of pretending to be in love with the husband...
Died. Leo Ditrichstein, 63, famed Hungarian-born actor (Trilby), playwright (The Great Lover) ; in Auersperg, Austria; of heart disease. Less than four years ago retired from the U. S. stage, sold his U. S. possessions, spoke loudly on the deplorable condition of the U. S. theatre, deplorable invasion of the cinema, and the deplorable tempo of U. S. life, then sailed for Europe forever...
Among the younger Hungarian dramatists whose wares will Come to Broadway are Ladislaus Fazekas with Four Gentlemen in Dress Suits; Attila Orbok with The Comet; Ladislaus Fodor, whose Marguerite of Navarre will be called Successful Despite Himsclf; and Nicholas Vitez in whose Where Is the Drama? Leo Ditrichstein will star...
...several talents. Robert M. Jr. is his father's junior partner in politics. Philip is carrying on in his father's shoes as a lawyer. Fola, after an apprenticeship in the woman suffrage movement, went on the stage, played ingenue parts with Ada Rehan, played with Leo Ditrichstein, and then suddenly left the stage to marry playwright George Middleton. The youngest, Mary, studied...
...important feature of the proceedings is the joint presence of Leo Ditrichstein and Lola Fisher. Mr. Ditrichstein has forsaken for the nonce his vast capacity for random love affairs and settled down to a display of his considerable talent as a human being of normal impulses. Regarding Miss Fisher, there is virtually nothing to say. Somebody once said he didn't like her. He wasn't even put under observation. He was buried the next day at noon...