Word: lula
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Malich, Chairman, Miss Agnes Locke; M. W. Hatch, Miss Lula Brown; A. A. Laun, Jr., Miss Sue Burgess; J. D. Leekley, Miss Marjorie Mayer; W. P. Locke, Miss Esther Bohn; A. W. Williams, Miss Esther Bohn; W. V. A. Coombs...
...afternoon last week, Grenville Collins, producer of Sun-Up, Lula Vollmer's play of the Carolina Mountains which has an all-American cast,, was called to the telephone by the Lord Chamberlain's Department and asked to provide boxes for the King and Queen that evening. Shortly before the curtain rang up, their Majesties, accompanied by an ample suite, entered the theatre, occupied three left-hand boxes. They stayed to the end of the performance* joined in the ovation given to Miss Lucille Laverne, who played the leading role, made a quiet exit as the audience was kept...
...remember this Southern play by Lula Vollmer, which told so sternly and so well certain truths about the mountain people. In the picture it still has its tale to tell, plus a love story to thin it out to seven reels. The story is one of war; how feud war faded before the greater war which took the mountaineers to Germany, which they regarded as just beyond Asheville. The dominant figure is the old mountain mother who, between puffs at her corncob pipe, attains in her ignorance to some fundamental facts in life. Lucille La Verne, as in the play...
...Dunce Boy. There was much anticipatory comment about this latest play by Lula Vollmer. She was the author of the glowing Sun-Up and the successful, if not so glowing Shame Woman. The locale of her plays is the Southern mountains, her people the mountaineers. Their dialect is liquid, their passions primitive. She came from that country to Man- hattan, got a job selling tickets for the Theatre Guild. Then Sun-Up. Quite contrary to the custom, it must be said that Miss Vollmer broke badly with The Dunce...
...Lula Vollnaer...