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Married. Joe Howard, actor who long shared with De Wolfe Hopper and the late Nat Goodwin the honor of being the husband of five wives, to a sixth, Miss Anita Case, now appearing in a vaudeville sketch with him; in Milwaukee...
...patrons include Mrs. Clarence Millheiser, Mrs. Minette Hirst, Dr. and Mrs. Seymour Oppenheimer, William Braden, Edgar J. Kauffman, Colonel Herbert H. Lehman, Forry S. Lancks, Messmore Kendall, Colonel Walter D. Scott, Mr: and Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Winkler, Mrs. Irena Hopper, Robert Gillespi, Sir Joseph Duveen, Frank Stoors...
...increasing his fortune, Gailo has confounded those who declare that no company can give grand opera in the U. S. at $3 a ticket and avoid bankruptcy (TIME, Oct. 1, 1923). He has kept other irons simmering. He managed an unsuccessful English light-opera company, built around De Wolf Hopper; he managed the eternal Eleonora Duse in her last U. S. tour; the incomparable Anna Pavlowa has been under his direction. Next year, he will manage the Manhattan Police Band...
...ever wore grease-paint", who drank a quart of champagne and a quart of whiskey every evening in his dressing room; golden Lillian Russell who "broke 1,000 hearts a night" when she sang Rosie, you are my Posie; David Warfield, William Collier, Fay Templeton, De Wolf Hopper, Bessie McCoy, Frankie Bailey, Sam Bernard...
...Hopper holds his audiences in a way that is given only to geniuses. Which is to say that there are a great many people, and the Playgoer is one of them, who would prefer a play that tastes like day before yesterday's milk, provided De Wolf Hopper is in it, to the latest "Hit from Broadway". But it is speaking disrespectfully of things venerable to put "Wang" in such a class. In spite of its one-cylinder action its songs are often charming. And he would be a critical man who would not consider an evening well spent just...