Word: lupin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast: Sweeney Todd, R. E. Clement '32; Mrs. Lovett, R. J. Frescoln 1G.; Mrs. Oakley, G. G. Johnson '34; Johauno Oakley, C. J. Fleming, Jr. '33; Jasper Oakley, C. F. Goodale '34; Mark Ingestrie, W. M. Hoyl '33; Colonel Jeffery, L. L. Filstrup 4K.S.: Dr. Lupin, A. B. Gardiner III, '33; Keckiel Smith, G. H. Damon '34; and Javvis Williams, J. G. Patterson '35. The business manager of the play is W. T. Piper '34; the stage manager G. D. Leahoy '33; and the property manager H. E. Howe...
Anyone who would like to see the two Barrymore brothers, John and Lienel, eneering, smiling, and bowing to each other ever so slightly, but as graciously as only Barrymores can, should see "Arsene Lupin" now playing at Loew's State...
...make the complacent yet devilishly clever Duke feel uncomfortable. From under Guerchard's very eyes necklaces and diamonds are whisked off a dozen ladies at a dance, and a whole great hall full of portraits of "ancestors bought cheap" and marble busts is robbed by a patrol of Arsene Lupin's police-clad confederates. The final insult to Guerchard occurs in the Louvre at a moment when it is surrounded by police. While Guerchard, twenty-five feet away, is standing in the very same room, the words "tut, tut", are scrawled across the front of a reproduction of the Mona...
Anyone who pays 25? to see the plot of Arsene Lupin, derived from the play by Maurice Le Blanc and Francis de Croisset, or to hear the dialog written for it by Bayard Veiller and Lenore Coffee, would have a right to feel disappointed, if not duped. But no one should make such a mistake. The pleasure of seeing this Arsene Lupin consists entirely in seeing both Barrymore brothers at the same time. Theatre-goers enjoyed this privilege in 1919, when both were cabined in the narrow dungeons of The Jest, but they are not likely to enjoy it again...
While Arsene Lupin was being made, Hollywood heard that the Barrymores were squabbling on the set, trying hard to steal each other's scenes. This was probably unfounded. Amiable competitors, they first played together in Peter Ibbetson. John, offered the role, refused it as "sentimental bunk" until he learned that there was a part in it for Lionel, then an illustrator at $50 a week. The play ran four months. Later, planning a fishing trip together, they expected it to be postponed a week or two by The Jest, which ran nine months. When they met for the first...