Word: floradora
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...oldtime Camllle, played by woebegone Lillian Gish staged by Designer Robert Edmond Jones (TIME, Aug. 1, 1932). Last week the play was The Merry Widow with Austrian Composer Franz Lehar's nostalgic score.* Most of last week's socialite audience came in period costume, the women in Floradora dresses, the men in early 20th Century costume. To prepare their setting for a fancy dress ball they had taken over Central City's Teller House, next door to the Opera House, restored its grandeur of 1873 when President Grant stepped into it on silver paving slabs. The presidential...
...revolving stage in the U. S., built between majestic twin oaks which are heavily insured and dosed with castor oil to fend off sickness. There the Municipal ("Muny") Opera Company broke all attendance records lately with Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet (62,000 heard it in a week). Floradora, musty relic of the nineties, ran close second. Last week at the Muny Opera Rip Van Winkle was put on with Robert Planquette's corny, old-time score jazzed almost beyond recognition. The Muny Rip was a radio entertainer who took too much bootleg gin and dreamed...
This year's production will be directed by Paul Anderson, and the important parts will be taken by Luther Scheffy '35, W. A. Forbush '35, N. P. Farquhar '32, and M. F. Heath '34. One of the highlights of the comedy will be a Floradora chorus composed entirely of football men. The "chorus girls" will be: A. J. Barrett '34, J. D. Esterly '33, Herman Gundlach '35, J. C. Grady '33, C. H. Hageman '33, I. B. Hardy '33, R. L. Lowe '34, C. J. Nevin '34, and C. A. Pescosolido...
...Brought a New Kind of Love to Me and My Kind of A Man (Columbia). Ethel Waters moaning low and duskily Chevalier (Big Pond) and Floradora Girl hits...
...FLORADORA GIRL (Marion Davies) -Jumbled but amusing reminiscence of the Mauve Decade (TIME, June...