Word: manker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dance of Life (Paramount). When Arthur Hopkins and George Manker Waiters wrote the play Burlesque, they somehow extracted, the maximum amount of sentimentality from a story which was even then not altogether new but which became for the first time extraordinarily successful. How a loyal dancing girl forced her alcoholic, small-time husband into a big part, how she stuck to him when good luck made him forget her, how she bucked him up in failure, was immediately used with variations as a theme for so many pictures that it was hard to believe that Paramount's delayed production...
...comes of a family of seven brothers (City Manager William R. Hopkins of Cleveland is one). When he undertakes to present a play, it generally receives every advantage of generous production and intelligent direction. Last year he gave Deep River, the Stallings-Harling opera of native music. With George Manker Watters. he collaborated in writing Burlesque. Probably the common inference that Mr. Watters wrote the play and Mr. Hopkins rewrote it, is correct...