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Back from Cain's warehouse this week, just 17 months since its run ended, came Stage with a new cast, new sets, new management. President of the company is a rich Manhattan socialite, William Rhinelander Stewart. Publisher is a shrewd, energetic Hungarian editor and impresario, Alexander Ince. Managing editor: Alexander King, onetime drama critic, illustrator, onetime member of LIFE'S staff...
Meanwhile Ince had branched out as a producer, sold Hungarian plays to Broadway, bought Broadway plays to show on the Continent. From his European production of Abie's Irish Rose he earned the money with which he bought his share of Stage when he became an exile...
Theatre Life had a gala anniversary on its 25th birthday in 1935. From Szöke Szakal (translation: blond beard), a Hungarian actor, Publisher Ince got a letter of congratulation, a check for $125 to cover a subscription for the next 25 years. Three years later, Theatre Life was dead. This week, to Szöke Szakal, now in Hollywood, Publisher Ince announced that he was back in business, sent a 22-year subscription to Stage...
...trade names. In the panic of 1837, 25-year-old Charles Lewis Tiffany opened his store in downtown Manhattan, sold $4.98 worth of goods in the first three days. A dozen years later, the firm (then Tiffany, Young & Ellis) startled rival jewelers by purchasing $100,000 worth of royal Hungarian diamonds, began gathering éclat. Still later it bought the 128½-carat canary Tiffany diamond. Big as a man's fist, priceless, the stone is exhibited on state occasions, like the New York World's Fair...
...anything but a hash. In "The Dictator" Chaplin appears in two parts: the pathetic and familiar little figure, and the dictator. As the barber he is the old Chaplin. His dance sequence after getting bopped on the head with a shovel, and the nonchalant feat of accompanying the Fifth Hungarian Rhapsody with his razor while shaving a frightened customer are as good as anything he did in the era of "The Kid" and "The Circus." Naturally he plays Adenoid Hinkel, the Phooey of Tomania, superbly. But here he is moving in a strange and discordant world of realistic and bitter...