Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wrote Critic Hannen Swaffer of the London Daily Express after witnessing, last week in Malvern, the English premiere of The Apple Cart, George Bernard Shaw's first play in six years...
...play takes three and one-half hours. The time is the unspecified future. The hero is the King of England. In the first act, the King resists the attempts of his Cabinet to deprive him of the right of veto. In the second, he talks tediously with his mistress. In the third, he is approached by the U. S. Ambassador and informed that the U. S. wishes to return to the British Empire-to absorb it. Shaw eventually postulates his thesis, which is a criticism of democracy most succinctly expressed in the somewhat muddled Shavianism spoken by King Magnus...
...Dance of Life (Paramount). When Arthur Hopkins and George Manker Waiters wrote the play Burlesque, they somehow extracted, the maximum amount of sentimentality from a story which was even then not altogether new but which became for the first time extraordinarily successful. How a loyal dancing girl forced her alcoholic, small-time husband into a big part, how she stuck to him when good luck made him forget her, how she bucked him up in failure, was immediately used with variations as a theme for so many pictures that it was hard to believe that Paramount's delayed production...
...school he wrote short stories, published few, then wrote 51 scenarios, sold the 52nd to a small producer in Texas. He directed himself in the leading role, made little money out of it. Several years later, after marrying Florence Vidor, not then famed as a cinemactress, he got his first good job writing and directing stories for General Film Co. Recently he was divorced by Florence Vidor, married Eleanor Boardman whom he directed in The Crowd...
...business in one season's plays, the U. S. "itch for bogus purple," the old U. S. saloons not clubs, an assault on publishers including A. A. Knopf, dancing not art but exhibitionism. A typical Nathanity: "And if too many people familiarly call Jimmy Walker by his first name, too many, it seems to me, do the same thing with Jesus Christ...