Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Backstage in "Sunny" land at the Colonial his life endangered by a maze of ropes, "props" and the frantic haste of Herculean property men constructing the "S. S. Triumphant", his wits distracted by the Eight Marilyn Miller Cocktails rushing from the spotlight to their respective dressing rooms and the thunderous applause of a Saturday makinee audience, a panicky. Crimson reporter tried to follow the witticisms of Jack Donahue, famous for his funny feet...
...Harvard football team, or any other, has nothing on me when it comes to training," remarked Marilyn Miller, peerless queen of musical comedy, last night to a CRIMSON reporter when he had sufficiently mastered the situation to ask her to speak of herself and the secret of her remarkable success on the stage. Miss Miller begins a long run at the Colonial Theatre in Boston Tuesday night in Charles Dillingham's musical comedy production "Sunny", in which she starred for 15 months in New York...
...follow strict rules, even in the earlier travels of the Miller family, and my mother set aside certain hours for dancing studying music, taking piano lessons, physical exercise and even a course of modern literature which I had to begin reading at the age of ten. Imagine!" exclaimed Marilyn with a grimace, "who wants to deny that I didn't have a pretty tough time of it when...
...stage and be successful as an actress I would advocate for him hard work and temperate living, a careful diet, continued practice, strict attention to dance and music lessons, an hour a day with dramatic instructor, and, above all, never to get fat, and," concluded Marilyn with a wink, "nobody ever accused me of being facetious...
Though Mr. Dean's theatrical efforts have been chiefly confined to European production, he has also attained a high standard in the plays put on in this country. "Peter Pan" with Marilyn Miller, last year, and Noel Coward's "The Vortex" are outstanding among his triumphs...