Word: hazard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...back-stage mazes of the Wilbur Theatre, present home of "Queen High", are particularly intricate, and the CRIMSON interviewer was glad at last to see the generous form of John Hazard in the doorway of his dressing room. Following Mr. Hazard inside the reporter was seated and properly entertained with the amenities which are the fashion these days. The conversation took on a mellow tone...
...John Hazard and Frank Crumit, who play the Nettleton Johns outfit, are surprisingly natural in their actions except for too much winking at the audience Mile. Sanderson was on hand occasionally with her perennial charm and a good voice. She was called back four or five times for the song in which she hinted that she was a lady. Polly and Dick, the office-hands, were nice youngsters who insisted on missing the last note of every song. Coddles, the coo-coo maid stumbled around in mad gyrations and burlesque ballets until Ye Wilbur threatened to collapse on its foundations...
Princess Turandot. The English translation of the Russian translation of the Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, under the direction of Leo Bulgakov, becomes a beguiling bit of theatrical amusement. An Oriental Princess, the fable has it, would guard her ephemeral freedom from the male sex behind a hazard of riddles. Suitors failing to solve her prehistoric crossword puzzles lose their stupid heads. One young Prince not only guesses all the riddles, but makes Her Wilful Highness like him for it, as well. The feminine "shall I, shall I not" is woven into the fabric of a soundly constructed play...
Head Or Tail is a subjective play from the Hungarian of Laszlo Lakatos, presenting the perturbed mental state of a jealous husband. The hazard of guessing whether one's wife is faithful or perfidious suggests the title, suggests also Act II in which agitate Andor Tamas (Philip Merivale) imagines that phases of his own marital relations are revealed in sundry characters of a popular-priced brothel. None other than Estelle Winwood plays his uncertain spouse. She also plays the Hungarian Rhapsody on a player-piano that in one performance, at least, failed to synchronize with her fingers. Such embarrassments...
After so great a success as "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" it took courage to rescue another legend from the past and give it new life in modern terms. Galahad turns a hazard into a triumph...