Word: lee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proadhurst, W. 44th, Broadway-- A comedy of the back-stage life of the night club: Lee Tracy plays the part of the self-made "hoofer" who worships his maker. Eloise Stream, in one of the minor parts, gives an almost perfect performance...
...committee consists of: J. L. Beauohamp '28, Chairman; Lee McFurnan '28, A. O. Fordyce '28, J.B. Fyffe '29, Gordon Huggins '29, and Abbott Peterson...
...Lee was the son of a Presbyterian divine who had held many offices under the Commonwealth, notably being chaplain General Monk. After graduating from Trinity College. Cambridge, he came to London under the patronage of the Duke of Buckingham, with the intention of earning a living as an actor. But though, it is said, he was a fine reader, his seemingly incurable stage fright made an actor's career out of the question...
...Lee had achieved a considerable reputation not alone for his writing but for his activities in the dissolute society of the Earl of Rochester. As the grew more disreputable, his patron age, gradually disappeared, and a year later, his mind was completely unhinged. Five years were spent in Bethlehem Hospital where he to some extent recovered but not very long after leaving the Hospital he died in a drunken...
...always interesting to speculate on what night have happened it sorataing else had not. Would Lee: placed in a different period of history have risen to greater heights heights hlated at in some of the passages of his plays or would he not have written plays at all. Who knows: "It" is always there to block the progress of our speculation...