Word: lula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lula Horgos was a gawky, lonely twelve-year-old who lived in a seedy brownstone front on Manhattan's West Side. Her father, a spiritualist, called her Dik-Dik (after the royal Abyssinian antelope). Neighbor kids called her Spooky Sloppy Lula. One day Dik-Dik saw a solemn, horse-faced young man coming down the street-the answer to a maiden's seance. Lula charged, threw her arms around his waist. "I'm Dik-Dik," she said. The stranger, who hailed from South Brooklyn, had a "heart as clean as a baby's," was the fourth...
...Hill Between (by Lula Vollmer; produced by Robert Butterfield). In 1923 Lula Vollmer achieved a Broadway hit with her play about mountain folk, Sun-Up. Like Mahomet, Playwright Vollmer has been going to the mountain ever since. But in the past 15 years hillbillies have lost much of their freshness on the stage...
Last week, in The Hill Between, Playwright Vollmer told of the mountain boy who went to the city, got lost between two worlds. As he puts it: "A man spends his youth dreaming out, and all the rest of his life dreaming back." Lula Vollmer ruined her theme by implying that all folk ways are wholesome, all city ways evil. The square dance in Act II is jolly enough. The gunshot in Act III is a little too jolly...
Last autumn her talent for mimicry and histrionics was displayed before an admiring hometown audience, in the amateur theatre of the Palo Alto Community Players. Asked to take the part of the Widow Cagle in Lula Vollmers play of southern mountaineer white trash, Sun-Up (see front cover), Mrs. Norris was worried because the role required a series of hearty pulls on a corncob pipe. She had never smoked in her life, thought herself at 54 too old to begin. But her stage director was adamant. So, experimenting first with cubebs, later with cubeb tobacco stuffed into the bowl...
...story, which starts off with the promise of an indictment of hill-billy superstition, soon becomes the Hepburn, the whole Hepburn, and nothing but the Hepburn. Lula Vollmer, who has written several plays of the backwoods, sees her story completely appropriated by the clever actress who, we hear, is aiming at a Hollywood greatness that will rival Garbo's. The character players who make up the local color are taken from Miss Vollmer's radio sketch of the Tennessee mountains, "Moonshine and Honeysuckle," and are used only as folls for Miss Hepburn. Ralph Bellamy and Robert Young, young engineers...