Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hailed before the Equity Council to explain why she had deserted the road company of Her Cardboard Lover, why she had lounged in Milwaukee and then returned to Manhattan while her show went westward without her, Actress Jeanne Eagels languidly stated her defense. She had been ill, she said, and had not been able to appear. The producers, Gilbert Miller and Albert Herman Woods, should have hired an understudy...
Actress Eagels is famed for her outbursts of temperament as well as for her brilliant acting. Once, playing on Broadway, she walked off the stage in the middle of a scene because she wanted a glass of water. Her most recent eccentricity had caused Her Cardboard Lover to end its tour, and had deprived the producers and the other members of the cast of profits which they deserved to gain (TIME, April 2). The Equity Council conferred and came to a decision: Actress Eagels should be fined $2,000 and suspended from membership until September 1, 1929. This...
COQUETTE-Helen Hayes in the true tragedy of a small-town belle whose father causes her to commit suicide after her lover has seduced her (TIME...
...James Stephens-Macmillan ($2.50). Variety is color. Etched in moonlight there is no variety-only the alternating black and silver of sparse trees afar off, and the relentless greys of the vegetation underfoot. Striding through this spectral world they come, these three, to the deserted castle, where the jealous lover imprisoned his love and her betrothed. Fugitive, he roams the ends of the earth year after year, tormented by fear and remorse, until at last his cycle of self-recrimination brings him again to the silent castle and the "faces cut by the moon to a sternness of stone...
...with "ptomaine poisoning" Jeanne Eagels, actress famed in Rain and of late on tour with Her Cardboard Lover, failed to put in an appearance in Milwaukee, last week, where the play was scheduled to run. Previously she had failed to appear for an entire week in Boston; often before that she had been haphazard in her attentions to business. Because she is undeniably a talented performer, Producers Gilbert Miller and Albert Herman ("Bedroom") Woods had hitherto overlooked the flighty and eccentric behavior of Actress Eagels; but when, after her absence in Milwaukee, she failed to appear in St. Louis, they...