Word: mcevoy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SHOW GIRL-J. P. McEvoy-Simon & Schuster ($2). Apropos of Show Girl, Florenz Ziegfeld has written (or, at least, signed) his first book review; and in the distinguished Saturday Review of Literature at that. Likening the lives of showfolk to "April days blended of sun and showers," Mr. Ziegfeld brings Author McEvoy to task for letting his version of Broadway make such unadulterated whoopee. However, reviewer praises author as "a lusty fellow" who "writes with gusto" of Dixie Dugan "the hottest little wench that ever shook a scanty at a tired business man." Other characters are Dixie's devoted...
...Moore as an amateur elocutionist, Charles Butterworth as a terrified orator, a pair of clown esthetic dancers and the pretty chorus in a burlesque of Roxy Theatre pageants manage to boost the entertainment to the high level that theatre-goers expect of a show boasting sketches by J. P. McEvoy...
Wilbur--"Americana"--8:15 o'clock--What J.P. McEvoy pulls out of your Uncle Samuel's high hat. Step up, gents, and see ourselves as others...
...same exhibit was another painting of a mother, "The Foster Mother," by Frederic Cayley-Robinson, R. A., 64, noted British paint- er of water colors, ambitious murals, Biblical illustrations for the famed Medici Society (prints). The day after Painter McEvoy's death, Painter Robinson died, in London. A palm spray was placed beneath the portrait of his foster mother...
...Ambrose McEvoy's reputation was almost as high in the U. S. as in England. In 1920, his exhibition at Sir Joseph Duveen's Manhattan galleries led to many commissions here, at $5,000 each, for his idealized representations of fashionable ladies. (He had painted Consuelo, onetime Duchess of Marlborough.) He was compared with Gainsborough. His "Portrait of my Mother" looks less like Gains- borough's lacy work, however, than Whistler's calm familiar model by the same name. Only, Madam McEvoy seems not so old as Madam Whistler. In fact one feels she would take...