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Generous to the point of extravagance, the show offers four worthwhile lady entertainers: 1) saturnine Luella Gear, complaining that she has tried all the advertised luxuries of life but still "I Couldn't Hold My Man"; 2) lean Frances Williams who sings "Fun To Be Fooled" with bright authority; 3) a pert little body from the night clubs named Dixie Dunbar who kicks and chortles cutely; 4) Esther Junger, a concert dancer, bringing Carnegie Hall technique to frivolous Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Sep. 10, 1934 | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

Seeking Divorce. Luella Gear Heckscher, musicomedienne (Gay Divorce); from G. Maurice Heckscher, Manhattan realtor, son of Philanthropist August Heckscher. Charge: mental cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 20, 1933 | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

Thin, unfunny in spots and marred on the première by the brandied roarings of a number of Mr. Astaire's fashionable friends, Gay Divorce nevertheless provides a generous measure of polite entertainment. Luella Gear, cast as Actress Luce's guide, philosopher and friend, is dryly humorous, sings one funny song about a "brave young American girl of 37" who proclaims herself "true to the Red. White & Blue" at a Communist gathering, another about an unfortunate family of Fitches. Eric Blore plays an amusing barman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1932 | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

Killer Powers was rushed for safety from the city to the county jail while police began to investigate the activities of Luella Struthers, a wife whom he had not killed, who still lived with him and who had paid for construction of the garage. They learned she had been divorced by a man acquitted of murder in 1903, had met Powers through a marriage agency. They sought to connect her with a check forged on Mrs. Eicher's account and with a letter written to relatives of Mrs. Lemke. Police elsewhere, investigating Powers' courtships, learned he had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: We Make Thousands Happy | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...Daisy. A listless musical comedy. The cast includes Marie Saxon, whose legs win her at least the title of "The American Mistinguett;" Buster West, cute and toothy juvenile dancer; Luella Gear, William Kent, Nell Kelly. And yet it is dismal, for the lines are feeble, the tunes ordinary. The story deals with a husband who plagiarizes a book on mountain-climbing so his wife will not know he has spent all his time in Paris, none in the Alps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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