Word: morosco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles' Burbank Theater was known to the trade as a "hoodoo house" when a lean, sandy-haired, 23-year-old manager named Oliver Mitchell took it over in 1899. Weaned in the theater as a "top stander" in a family acrobatic act called The Three Moroscos, Oliver assumed the name Morosco. He struck out for himself at the age of twelve, became assistant manager of a theater at 16. At 35, in the Burbank, he produced a musical hit, The Bird of Paradise...
From then on Oliver Morosco was one of the nation's most spectacular showmen. From a succession of Broadway hits including The Bat and Peg o' My Heart (with a glamorous new star, Laurette Tay lor) he made more than $5,000,000. But an 18-year-long plagiarism suit over The Bird of Paradise dogged most of his career, and in 1923 he was neck deep (though later cleared) in a $2½ million stock swindle involving his vast theater holdings. About that time, his shrewd judgment of box-office began to fail him. After passing...
Like those of many great theatrical contemporaries, Oliver Morosco's name still blazes from the marquee of a Broadway theater. As playgoers queued up there last week for tickets to The Voice of the Turtle, the man whose name was on every ticket lay in a Los Angeles morgue. Morosco had died at 69 under the wheels of a streetcar in the city where he first made good. He was dressed in a threadbare suit. In his pocket was eight cents...
...Broadway's biggest comedy smash, The Voice of the Turtle, has provided Broadway's smallest cast with Broadway's plushiest dressing rooms. Each of the three performers at the Morosco has a whole floor backstage. The three suites, which cost around $30,000, contain a dressing room, sitting room, kitchenette with refrigerator, bathroom without bath. Margaret Sullavan's first floor (see cut) is all feminine satin; Elliott Nugent's second floor, all masculine mahogany; Audrey Christie's third floor, all pink& blue...