Word: gish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's Lord Chamberlain, world's strictest censor, saw no harm in Within the Gates. When the play opened in Manhattan last October, half the critical choir went into ecstasies over its allegory of a bishop's illegitimate daughter (played by Lillian Gish) who becomes a prostitute and dies in a raffish poet's arms unshriven by the Church. Since the bishop's creed was left scrupulously unspecified by Playwright O'Casey, no faction of the New York clergy felt impelled to lead an assault on the drama's heresies. But as soon...
...illustrate this not unusual thesis, he sets his scene in a mythical Hyde Park, brings on Lillian Gish as The Young Whore,* her embittered mother as The Old Woman, her stepfather The Atheist, her real father The Bishop, her various lovers, pickups and The Dreamer. Each act is a season and each season has its appropriate song and dance by the folk in the park. As the seasons progress The Young Whore's lot grows sorrier. The Bishop offers her only the cold comfort of a nunnery. The Atheist is unhappily God-obsessed. The Old Woman, lamenting a lost...
...years ago, heirs of the McFarlane brothers, who built the Opera House, presented it to Denver University. Ann Evans, Denver's Art patron, organized a scheme to make annual revivals there a reminder of the city's rowdy past. The revivals started two years ago when Lillian Gish played Camille. Last summer an audience in 1890 costume watched The Merry Widow. For last week's performance Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones selected Othello, persuaded Walter Huston to take a six-week vacation from Dodsworth in Manhattan to appear as the Moor with Nan Sunderland (Mrs. Huston...
...What did the seductive Scottish explorer teach Dorothy Gish...
Richard Aldrich (Harvard '25) and Alfred de Liagre Jr. (Yale '26) are two of Broadway's least experienced managers but in By Your Leave, as in Three Cornered Moon which they produced last year, they showed good casting sense. Dorothy Gish looks younger than she is (36). Howard Lindsay, who dramatized the season's successful comedy, She Loves Me Not, has not acted since he played the scenario writer in Dulcy (1921). Kenneth MacKenna, who is currently being divorced by Kay Francis, sounds Scotch and specializes in Scottish roles, but his real name is Leo Mielziner...