Word: mitzie
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...course, the plot is just as inconsequential as ever, and as usual it doesn't matter. You don't go to be gripped by the stirring pathos of the story-book romance of Franz Schubert and Mitzi Kranz, to weep for unrewardtd genius when the handsome, worthless Baron Schober steals the girl away and ruins Franz's inspiration so he can't finish the Unfinished Symphony. Rather you go to forget this cold cruel world and settle back for three delightful acts of life to the strains of Schubert. Hence you overlook a lot of unconvincing acting, and laugh...
Morning Star (by Sylvia Regan; produced by George Kondolf) gave Yiddish Actress Molly Picon, once the gay "Mitzi of the East Side," her first English-speaking dramatic role on Broadway. It also turned her into an old woman overnight, made her a grey-haired Jewish mama in one of those sentimental family chronicles which are rigged up each season, in a different racial garb, to catch the family trade...
...young actress hurried on the stage, where were gathered Mitzi Green and Mary Brian, along with the leading members of the cast of the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...most talented babes of Babes In Arms are apparently not even eligible to operate a motor vehicle at night in New York State, where full driving privileges begin at 18. One is Mitzi Green, a stripling advertised as 16 who used to be a child star in the films, progressed to a juvenile radio program which she surprisingly forsook this winter to entertain at a Manhattan night club called Versailles, a house where innocence is as rare as courtesy. There Miss Green did impersonations, the most painful of which-a re-enactment of Luise Rainer's big sob scene...
...Mitzi Green is the main person in the show. She is still the funny-looking girl she was in the movies, and she still makes the same alarming faces. But she is especially endowed with the vivacity that characterizes the whole show. The rest of the giant cast is competent but undistinguished...