Word: mcrae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Messrs. Shubert present Fay Bainter in "First Love" with Bruce McRae in a New Comedy badly adapted by Zoe Atkins from the French play "Pile ou Face" by Louis Venneuil. Miss Bainter's gowns, unfortunately, are by Boue Soeurs...
...first act is in the home of the wealthy Count de Varigny, played by Bruce McRae. A valuable half hour is consumed in explaining that the Count has a son who has left his father's bed and board three years previous to the curtain to write popular songs in Parisian Tin-Pan Alley. Here, the son, Mr. Geoffrey Kerr, has been fortunate enough to awaken with his piano one night the charming Miss Bainter, playing the part of a Roumanian medical student. Thus acquaintance, attention, and infatuation in quick succession. A bailiff with a long name has come...
...When the principles are not at it, the other characters in the play are telling one another how sweet it is. The audience, surfeited, looks on skeptically, for the kiss-cuddle-coo is supposed to have been continuous for three years, and in Paris. There is a father (Bruce McRae) who has ordered the hero-son out of the house for having loved the wrong girl, for having composed popular songs. The parent then falls in love with the girl himself, proving that the hero was right. On Fay Bainter's arch pouting and ogling rests the burden...
Serene, undisheveled, he hastened away, to a reception at which he expected to meet fellow theosophists-Craig Biddle of Philadelphia, Mrs. Theus Munds of Manhattan, Major General James Henry McRae, Architect Claude Bragdon-as at Manhattan he had expected to greet Artist James Montgomery Flagg...
Died. William B. Clover, 56, former Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, onetime reporter for the Cleveland Press and correspondent of the Scripps-McRae League of newspapers, organizer of the Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance; in Washington...