Word: foye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Sears. Roebuck cannot breen genius is to verge on the truth. And imagine verging on the truth. In fact imagine verging anyway. Miss Fvre sees Etta Banana's tragedy and shuts her eyes. I remembered, as I saw her, that famous evening when the great and only Eddie Foy, his family and I filled the old Madison Square Garden watching Duse play little Eva in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Miss Frye has the same elan, the some esprit, the same biceps...
...FOY...
...even the simplest line as either a benediction or a curse. Arnold Daly is a living exhibit of all the tricks of the trade, flourished one after the other. Arnold Korff, who made a distinct impression in The Living Mask (TIME, Jan. 28), here sounds at times like Eddie Foy. Lowell Sherman, save for one or two humorous moments, is hysterical and seems to be constantly limbering up his fingers for typewriter work. Even the extremely honest, intuitive Helen Gahagan gets a little off key from the general falsetto...
...Eddie Foy, comedian, was there with his new wife. Harry Wills sat by, in fawn suitings, looking glum. Jack Johnson and Kid Norfolk chatted with Battling Siki, who grinned the while, not understanding much English...
...knickerbockered in- fant prodigy. But any such fears were dispelled at his appearance. Mr. Price is young, to be sure, but only as young as most musical comedy stars are made up to be. His offering is a number of clever imitations of Broadway stars--Jolson, Leonard, Foy--and any one else that the audience asked for. He has a pleasant personality, a trifle too much Broadway perhaps, but his enthusiasm makes up for that and he "gets away big". Finally two acrobats--"Gymnastic finesse a la Femme--performs feats that would be difficult for "Gymnasts a l'homme...