Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metropolitan--"Svengalf", famous drama of music and hypnotism starring John Barrymore in the lead and Marian Marsh as Trilby...
...Gilbert & Sullivan operetta The Mikado, presented by Milton Aborn's Civic Light Opera Company. Oldtimers in the audience flinched when the curtain rose to reveal a meaningless shadowgraph sequence of Japanese town life, a very un-Gilbertian interpolation. But all was set right again when Howard Marsh stepped out and began to sing "Gentlemen, I pray you tell...
Metropolitan--"Svengali", famous drama of music and hypnotism starring John Barrymore in the lead and Marian Marsh as Trilby...
...eyes, false whiskers, mouth pieces used for the distortion of the teeth, and stilts in his shoes to make him look taller. He is Svengali, the musical hypnotist of the Latin quarter, in a story that is Du Maurier's Trilby except that the character of Trilby (Marian Marsh) is played down and Svengali played up. Barrymore handles all the artifices of the acting trade with gusto and intelligence. He meets Trilby at the time when she has fallen in love with a charming English aristocrat and by his occult power charms her away from her true love...
...Marsh, Thomas Meighan...