Word: gablers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week The Lion's art was stacked up for posterity when Milton Gabler's Commodore Music Shop produced a Willie Smith album of seven discs recording 14 of his solos. Besides his own Echo of Spring, Morning Air, Fading Star, The Lion plays six numbers written by others. Two of these represent him at his very best and worst. On Tea for Two the briskness and sprightliness, as they must occasionally to all improvising pianists, get way out of hand. His sincerest admirers will play oftener the solider, more artfully imaginative passages...
...Romeo, Juliet, Antony, Cleopatra, Othello and Brutus were suicides. Suicides also resolved Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, The Sea Gull...
...leading lady of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre on Manhattan's 14th Street. If her abilities for cinema were so pronounced, it seemed strange that no Hollywood spy had detected them before in her performances as Teresa in The Cradle Song, Mrs. Elvsted in Hedda Gabler, Wendy in Peter Pen, Anya in The Cherry Orchard or 30 other rôles. Somewhat startled by sudden recognition, Cinemactress Hutchinson was treated to a thorough series of camera tests designed to find out the most effective means of photographing her angular, expressive face. Meanwhile Hollywood gossip writers pigeonholed...
...only because those values are inferior in kind to the social values of the Greeks, of Dante, and of the Renaissance, but also because they are questioned by us at an unparalleled degree, especially by contemporary writers. Ibsen did not, as Mr. Harris think, write "Ghosts," or "Hedda Gabler," on the basis of the social values of his day, he wrote them in order to attack and denounce those values. And what social values does the author of "Strange interlude," and "Morning Becomes Electra" believe...
Died. Clare Jenness Eames, 34, actress (Declassee, Hedda Gabler, Candida, The Sacred Flame), onetime wife of Playwright Sidney Howard (she played in his Swords, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Silver Cord, Lucky Sam McCarver) ; after several operations; in London. She was a niece of Mme Emma Eames De Gogorza, famed opera singer, and of Mrs. Hiram Percy Maxim, wife of Silencer-inventor Maxim...