Word: lightnin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kibitzer. Fannie Brice, playing Cleopatra, once described herself as "a bad woman but good company." Kibitzer is that sort of play. Structurally it has its weaknesses, but as an evening's entertainment there is no better bargain of its kind on Broadway at the moment. It is a Jewish Lightnin...
...Winkle, then replaced him in the title part, married and had three daughters. Many years ago, Thomas Jefferson left the legitimate stage and went into the movies; five years ago he came back to the stage and took over Frank Bacon's part in Lightnin'. Last week, divorced from his first wife because he had made too realistic love to his cinematic heroines, Thomas Jefferson announced his intention of marrying the latest one of these, Daisy M. Robinson...
Divorced. Thomas Jefferson, actor (Rip Van Winkle, Lightnin'), son of the famed late (1905) Actor Joseph Jefferson (who made the dramatic version of Rip Van Winkle); from Eugenie Paul Jefferson; at Reno, Nevada...
...Lightnin' Bill Jones used the same line in Lightnin', speaking of his pension check...
...appears in a small town; cheats most of the good citizens out of their money; restores devotion to the hearts of parted lovers. The play is completely given over to him, much as Lightnin' was given over to Bill Jones. The plays are not dissimilar. The Deacon is probably not so important as its prototype, but a very fair echo no less. Young Blood. You would think, would you not? that plays about the younger generation were about over with. But they are not. Here are such a shrewd and forward-looking a dramatist as James Forbes and such...