Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Laye went to Folkestone College, England, was thereafter a London chorus girl and heroine of the horrific Mr. Wu. She sang the lead in the British production of Mary, scored again in a revival of Lehar's The Merry Widow and in Madame Pompadour. She is now on her first visit to the U. S. Loud as was her reception, it was no louder than that accorded to U. S. Prima Donna Peggy Wood who sang the same role when Bitter Sweet opened in London last July. Ladies in Peggy Wood's audience tore off and flung to her their...
...ghastly time with two marriages. He is a purblind fellow, played by Kenneth Harlan (onetime cinemactor), who does not appreciate her allure until she saves him from death at the hands of a dope fiend. Just why he should love her then is problematical. The little child of his first wife enters to assist the final curtain...
...afternoon George V was whisked to visit his sister Louise, the Princess Royal, now convalescent from her recent illness, at her snug home in Portman Square. That night he celebrated, went to the theatre for the first time since he fell sick a year ago. Intellectuals who tried to guess what play His Majesty would choose ruled out one, the U. S. musical comedy Rose Marie which ran in London with the persistency of an Abie's Irish Rose and has recently been revived. In past years King George and Queen Mary have seen Rose Marie a total...
...dear old Quaker" (see p. 26). Next morning, still unwearied, the King-Emperor received a string of Ministers, including Ministress o;f Labor Miss Margaret ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, onetime starveling clerk in a draper's shop. Cheerful and quietly dressed, she entered Buckingham Palace as the first of her sex ever summoned there officially as a Minister of the Crown...
...show that he really likes the theatre and is well enough to take it straight without music, the King-Emperor went two nights later to chuckle at Marie Tempest ("the British Mrs. Fiske") in St. John Ervine's comedy The First Mrs. Fraser. Pieces passed up by Their Majesties included Shaw's new Apple Cart, Barrie's old Dear Brutus, and a magnificent Gilbert & Sullivan revival sequence at the Savoy Theatre, now sumptuously rebuilt and gone modernist...