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...Jed Willis, a mean, unmarried, sturdy and unscrupulous cotton farmer; because he wants a son, he proposes to his hired girl. Her rough and ready steady, Jim Dolf (Elliott Nugent), has a fight with Farmer Willis, in the course of which he inflicts the injury that makes necessary a sawbone's attention. When this has been supplied, Mr. Willis marries little Amy and discovers that he is incapable of begetting any child. With pathos that comes close to bathos, he allows the hired girl to fly away with her true sweetie; he will marry a rawboned backwoodswoman, because...
...Citizens" William Ackerman (Meridian, Miss.), Ralph Jonas (Brooklyn, N. Y.), Lucius N. Littauer (Gloversville, N. Y.) ; Public Officials Esther Andrews (Brookline, Mass.), William Freidman (Dade City, Fla.), Leon Schwartz (Mobile, Ala.), Alvin A. Wolff (St. Louis); Scientists A. A. Michelson, Leon S. Moissieff, Paul Radin; Theater Men Gustav Blum, Jed Harris, George S. Kaufman, Al Lewis, Samson Raphaelson, Muni Wisenfrend; Women Welfare Workers Mrs. Sidney C. Borg (New York), Amelia Greenwald (Meridian, Miss.), Mrs. Joseph Leblang (New York), Sophie Irene Loeb (New York), Mrs. Leopold Plaut (New York), Mrs. William D Sporborg (Port Chester, N. Y.), Lillian D. Wald...
...College and the intensely theatrical background of the melodrama, Broadway. In the cast of Broadway there once appeared one Ann Preston Bridgers, Smith girl, potential playwright. Her manuscript came under the canny eye of George Abbott, one of the authors of Broadway, and when he was through with it Jed Harris, producer of the same success, went out and hired a troupe. To head it he hired Helen Hayes, and by her playing she joined immediately the tiny group of actresses who make the theatre a land of wonder, tears & pure delight. Ably seconding her acts is Elliot Cabot, Harvard...
Spread Eagle. A wave of melodrama has swept Manhattan this year. On the crest of it, Jed Harris, youthful impresario, rides to glory. Recently a reporter on the theatrical weekly, Variety, he took to producing comedies with scant success, turned later to melodrama, offered Broadway, now lolls in plush. His second venture this season, Spread Eagle, another melodrama, cannot fail to make the audience wilt with excitement, the box office swell with receipts...
...postpone the next war with Mexico for several weeks. 2) For a line relative to making war on Mexico for the sake of oil interests? "Hearst tried in 1911, but he didn't get away with it"?Oilman William Randolph Hearst may institute libel suit against Producer Jed Harris. 3) Theatregoers have a perfect example of the modern drama of "debunk" ? melodramatic, cruelly ironical, peppered with smart cracks, staged with a faithfulness to reality that belies its flashy, imaginative cunning...