Word: gleason
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shannons of Broadway. Not so many seasons ago James Gleason and his wife, Lucille Webster, were unknown except to stock and vaudeville audiences. Then one night Mr. Gleason appeared in a piece of his own co-authorship called Is Zat So? From that day to this his name has been among the notables. Meanwhile, Mrs. Gleason was swaggering, noisy and caustic, through Merton of the Movies and The Butter and Egg Man. Now the family (with the exception of a sophomore son at University of California) have pooled potentialities and are appearing in a play written, directed and acted chiefly...
...they become involved in a water power deal of large proportions, and love. The comedy consists of scrambling out of the mess of presumptions on the day of reckoning with a whole face and heart. From this the reader may have guessed that the show is based on James Gleason's onetime farce vehicle, Like a King. The leg work is good, the singing terrible...
...Gleason, Miss Katherine Smith; D. W. Chapman, Miss Margaret MacGregor; S. L. Eaton, Miss Barbara Sheperd; W. Potter, P. M. Lenhart, H. S. Bokhof. Miss Virginia Hayden; H. A. Secrist. E. D. Pratt...
...Burke '27, C. D. Coady '27, W. P. Ellison '27, S. E. Gleason '27, E. C. Haggerty '27, R. A. Magowan '27, Geoffrey Platt '27, Howard Slade '27, C. H. Weymer '27 and Isadore Zarakoy...
...slapsticky adaptation of James Gleason & Richard Taber's Odyssey of a dim-witted pugilist and his pessimistic trainer. A grinning, guffawing, snickering audience testified that the film version is likely to prove as successful as the stage original...