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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...Mima. David Belasco is the grand old man of the U.S. theatre. To prove this, he wears a turn-around collar and permits himself to be photographed frequently with a benign facial expression. Like Flo Ziegfeld, George M. Cohan and certain other producers, he is never publicly designated as ridiculous. For the last few weeks, articles have appeared in news-sheets telling how "the Dean of the American Stage is working day and night, transforming his theatre into a veritable Hades," how "Belasco's version of Ferenc Molnar's Mima costs $300,000 to present," and lastly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...machine was the invention of one of the devils; it contained three cylinders, which, when opened, disclosed a marionette called Mima working her wiles on a simple forester. The diabolical mechanic who had designed this dynamo was displaying its efficiency to a Satanic investigation committee which sat in the orchestra pit to watch. Mima took the forester away from his wife with waggles of her physique; she made him commit the sins of the calendar and other more intimate ones, as blackmail and pandery. At last, it was the intention of the devil that the forester should show that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

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