Word: kiki
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leading lady of the piece is Lenore Ulric, who has finally come to light comedy after squirming and rasping through a decade of sin for the late David Belasco (Kiki, Lulu Belle, Mima). Her husband, Sidney Blackmer, plays opposite...
...plays he wrote, collaborated on or revised (among them: The Girl Of The Golden West, A Grand Army Man, Kiki) are sufficiently significant for immortality. The glamour and daring of his earlier productions has been imitated and surpassed by more youthful competitors, making some of his most recent productions seem merely the queasiness of an old man. But as a character of the U. S. theatre. David Belasco has a good chance of enduring. He saw to that...
...Kiki (United Artists). With decades in ringlets behind her, Mary Pickford has become a madcap. If she finds madcapping tiring at her age no one can tell from the results except that at times she seems to work a bit too hard at it. In The Taming of the Shrew, she was a madcap in costume, which was an advantage. In Coquette she had an hysterical scene which was widely applauded and made up for her routine madcapping. In Kiki the madcapping consists of losing her panties on the stage, reading other people's letters, using a hatpin...
Pagan Lady. This is the first time in 13 years that bushy-haired, voluptuous Lenore Ulric (Tiger Rose, Kiki, Lulu Belle, Mima) has not appeared under the aegis of Producer David Belasco. Gossipists have assumed that the reason for the rift is that Miss Ulric was unwilling to appear in the current Belasco offering, Dancing Partner, that the memory of unsuccessful Mima still rankles. But tradition dictates that any Belasco star who marries automatically leaves his service.* Pagan Lady is Actress Ulric's first vehicle since she was wed to Sidney Blackmer...
...pitch. It was Woody English, wiry Chicago third-baseman, coming up in the tenth with one out and the score tied. At the crack of his clean single the record crowd, spreading down over the grandstand terraces into roped-off areas along the sidelines, began to stir and shout. Kiki Cuyler lined out to Hendrick but then Hack Wilson hit safely and Taylor smacked the ball into the overflow crowd at the right, bringing in the run that won the game for the Cubs, 4-3. The big crowd went home jubilant. In a crucial series with Brooklyn...