Word: lora
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family drinking a toast, it seems like the conclusion of a homemade English boarding-school playlet. When Moll Flanders (Isobel Elsom) rustles archly across the stage in her duchessy silks, mouthing fancy, ye-old-tea-shoppe truisms, she brings to mind Penrod and his friends acting out Mrs. Lora Rewbush's egregious Arthurian "pageant...
...Frank Merlin, producer) deals, in the manner of Grand Hotel, with a group of passengers on board the S. S. Atlantia. They include: a dipsomaniac novelist (Millard Mitchell) on his way to Sweden for a prize; an unhappy young doctor (Glenn Anders) with a cancer cure, a neurotic wife (Lora Baxter) and a movie star mistress (Claudia Morgan); a Catholic Bishop headed for Rome with an atheist crony; a Broadway columnist with a Park Avenue vocabulary and an infatuated wife (Frieda Inescort). Also aboard .the Atlantia is its rapacious owner who compels his captain to break the transatlantic record although...
...Party (by Ivor Novello, produced by William A. Brady and Samuel F. E. Nirdlinger) is a slice of pure snob entertainment off the heel of the loaf. It projects a party given for a famed young London actress after her opening night: Lora Baxter in distant simulacrum of Tallulah Bankhead. Plot: Miss Baxter inveigles her old lover, now married, into kissing her. His little wife sees the kiss and tries to die by gulping all of what she thinks is Miss Baxter's cocaine. But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion...
Pretty, long-legged Lora Baxter is shrill, restless, self-centred and predatory as Tallulah Bankhead. When her part calls for acting, she rants and waves her arms as Miss Bankhead would never do, even at home. Most of the time Mrs. Campbell's flat face, truculent mouth and huge eyes dominate the proceedings with lines which may very well have been contributed by herself. A Party, scarcely a play, is based on the novel idea that some people who cannot, would like to go to a celebrity party. It succeeds in exploding the idea that such a party...
...comedy which can take its audience by storm is as rare as it is refreshing, but Mr. Osgood Perkins and Miss. Lora Baxter can safely be said to have achieved that lonely height in their current production at the Tremont Theatre in Boston...