Search Details

Word: leyla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1924-1924
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...authors (Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson) owe no moderate debt to the cast for a performance that rubs elbows with perfection. Louis Wolheim (Hairy Ape) plays the drunken captain; William Boyd, the sergeant; and Leyla Georgie, a newcomer, the girl. Mr. Wolheim has the toughest face in the American Theatre, the toughest part as Captain Flagg, and he blends them irresistibly. The remainder of the company seems a superb selection. The play with any other cast would smell too sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 15, 1924 | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...little ashamed of the God damns and Jesus Christs in the dialogue, and he apologized in the playbill. . . . Mr. Arthur Krock, who is an editorial companion of the authors on the staff of The New York World, describes their play as a barrack-room ballad. . . .1 thought that Miss Leyla Georgie's characterization of a, frail French girl, skipping gracefully from marine to marine, was a little masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Sep. 15, 1924 | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Next