Word: harems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tradition. "I'm going to get something on him. if it takes all season," remarked one. That was last year: and Mr. Belasco came through fairly favorably. This year, the skies have darkened. David Belasco produced Tiger Cats-a dull and savage diatribe against women. He produced The Harem-a. dull and dangerous farce about seduction. Finally, he has produced Ladies of the Evening, a play frankly, almost viciously, pornographic. Cognoscenti assert that Mr. Belasco has fared unfavorably in finance of late. He has turned to the last refuge, the bed, to feather his declining nest...
Garden of Weeds. "Saved by a Man from Syracuse" might have been the secondary title of this adventure. Betty Compson is the young person and that from which she is saved is a sort of country-club harem. There is an insidious individual who backs theatrical productions and swindles big business men as a relaxation. In his garden, country club, harem, is a variety of unfortunate and very lovely young women who have presumably come there from the various assemblies of his revues. He is just about to scalp another soul (subtitle writers are warned that this morbidly mixed metaphor...
Ernst Vajda will arive to see four of his plays presented, counting Fata Morgana which the Theatre Guild now has at the Garrick. Ina Claire and Bruce McRae are rehearsing Grounds for Divorce; Belasco has Harem, described as a recklessly risqué farce: and Gilbert Miller a piece termed at present The High...
...hour later the deposed Calif, his wife, daughter, two members of his harem and his private secretary left the country for Switzerland...
...ladies of the harem were much alarmed over impending events. The Chief Eunuch, allegedly, refused food for three days...