Word: kiki
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...addicts will derive a curious mixture of sensations from this picture. The rare and radiant Lenore, whose wiry wickedness David Belasco has always turned to virtue just before the final curtain, has undergone a metamorphosis. Both her personality and appearance seem altered. She is still a good actress but Kiki no more. The play, many will remember, is No. 9,824 in the Canadian Royal Northwest Mounted Police stories. They always get their audience...
...KIKI-Shrewd French farce inspired with the personality of Lenore Ulric and dignified by the Belasco name. The record run will be temporarily interrupted May 5, when Miss Ulric goes to Hollywood to film Tiger Rose...
...South Seas. Jeanne Eagels as the attractive, hard-boiled demimondaine. U. S. Marines, real rain, and the hot, moist breath of the tropics. SEVENTH HEAVEN-A blacksnake whip and an off-stage rendering of La Marseillaise are the emotional assistants to Helen Menken in a thrilling melodrama of Paris. KIKI-Lenore Ulric still turning 'em away at the Belasco Theatre. The story of a little Paris grisette who wasn't half so bad as she painted herself. THE ADDING MACHINE - Expressionistic projection of an humble Babbitt called Mr. Zero. A satirical arraignment of bourgeois justice by Elmer Rice...
...KIKI-Lenore Ulrich entering the last lap in her long career as the naughty little grisette who wasn't such a bad girl after all. Belasco hokum at its best...
...submissive sister of an absinthe-soaked shrew, turns on her with a courage restored by love, and beats her with her own, whip. LOYALTIES - John Galsworthy's somewhat theatric demonstration that conflicts in loyalties may be disastrous. A wealthy Jew, persecuted by amiable clubmen, wins a doubtful point. KIKI - Aside from holding the Broadway endurance record, Lenore Ulric is as brightly captivating as ever in the part of the just barely virtuous little Parisienne. The best current musical shows: Caroline, Chauve Souris, Greenwich Village Follies, Little Nellie Kelly, Liza, Music Box Revue, Ziegfeld Follies...