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...with the Comstock Lode. There in 1869 Charles Michelson, now publicity director of the Democratic National Committee, was born. Tumultous Virginia City was no place to raise a family, although the small clothing store the father operated was prosperous. The Michelsons moved to Calaveras, Calif., birthplace in 1870 of Miriam Michelson, dramatic critic and author (Petticoat King, Duchess of Suds). Three years later the "big bonanza" broke at Virginia City. Miners took $21,000,000 of silver ore from the Comstock Lode in one year. The Mackays, Fairs, O'Briens and Floods became multimillionaires...
...follows: J. L. Morris, Edmund Dorfman '33, M. B. Icove, Joseph Neyer '34, Lee Srole '32, N. J. Winer '31, Julius Kaplan '34, H. L. Lodish, S. M. Shevitz, and G. J. Huberman '34. The female roles are played by Mildred Levi, Hesta Blatt, Selma Yeslansky, and Miriam Gangburg...
...play authentic Alt Wien atmosphere, which, is almost all it needs. The "plot" is merely, a half-dozen amorous episodes. unconnected except by the busy hero. Best performance is that of Patricia Collinge, subtle and wistful as a lady who might have loved Anatol but never dared. Blonde Miriam Hopkins is raucously amusing as a guzzling showgirl...
...Majesty's Car. Lily Dornik (Miriam Hopkins) little suspected that when her journalist boyfriend took her out for a motor ride the vehicle would be one which was about to be delivered to her country's King. Nor did she understand why people suddenly became so nice to her, until the reporter broke the news: seeing her in His Majesty's car, everyone thought she was the royal mistress. Reluctantly Lily Dornik agrees to capitalize her position, rises to fame & fortune. Naturally no one says anything about her to the King. But one day, incognito, he drops...
...Miriam Hopkins came from Savannah, Ga. but only rarely does her cracker accent slip out onstage. Her original intention was to become a dancer, but she broke her ankle after appearing in the first Music Box Revue. His Majesty's Car is her twelfth theatrical engagement, including one year with the Theatre Guild. She has no hobbies, one wirehaired fox terrier, one husband-Playwright Austin Parker (Week End), Cornellian, Wartime ambulance driver, flyer in the Lafayette Escadrille. She looks girlish onstage, thirtyish off (exact age secret...