Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sends telegram to dinner given by J. Lorton Lee, Farmleigh, N. Y., former student under Woodrow Wilson, to workers of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in the 26th Congressional District. Toast to him drunk in wine 110 years...
...Lincoln - a play which, in spite of a few minor Briticisms in the original version, remains one of the most faithful and interesting literary portrayals of the rail-splitter President. Mary Stuart and Oliver Cromwell are not as successful as Abraham Lincoln, but in his latest play, Robert E. Lee, Mr. Drinkwater has apparently again struck the bell of success. Robert E. Lee is now running in London and will probably be produced in New York this Winter...
Homeward Bound. Here is an excellent example of harmless diversion. The producer has selected a heavy-weather sea story, relieved it with stray breaks of sunlight in the form of love and comedy, given it over to the able playing of Thomas Meighan and Lila Lee...
...Changeling. Henry Miller will lend his suave charm to a comedy by Lee Wilson Dodd, based, as the name suggests, on the mutability of human identity. During Mr. Miller's Summer season in San Francisco, Blanche Bates and Ruth Chatterton were numbered among the cast. One, possibly both, will come to Broadway...
Visiting critics, dramatic and sporting, acted as though they had seen the Moscow Art Theatre. Columns of frenzied adjectives flashed eastward. For two weeks the adjectives knocked around the managers' offices. Suddenly they penetrated three heads at once. Almost simultaneously Florenz Ziegfeld, Lee Shubert and Irving Berlin started burning the Western wires with gold-leaf offers for Patricia's pilgrimage to Broadway...