Word: naming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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German Novelist Leonhard Frank adapted this play from his novel of the same name. Despite the subtle services of Alice Brady, making her Guild debut, and of Otto Kruger and Frank Conroy, the weird passion of Karl and Anna remains fabulous, as insubstantial as the fictions of Graustark...
...last week at Broadstone was little more than a series of illustrations of how well or badly England's golfstresses had mastered their copybook. Mrs. Herbert Guedalla, who as Edith Leitch sometimes used to give Miss Wethered a close match, seemed formidable until a red-cheeked girl named Diana Fishwick put her out in the semifinal. In the final Miss Fishwick played Miss Molly Gourley of Camberley Heath whose game, like her name, moved with the jolly confident rhythm of a country jingle. Inexperienced. Miss Fishwick's efforts to surpass herself kept a niblick in her hand...
...Real name: Antonia Merce. Born in Buenos Aires, she is one of the few Argentinians who have pure Spanish blood. Her father, onetime premier danseur at the Madrid Opera, was a Castilian; her mother an Amlulasian...
...deck-chair on an eastbound Atlantic liner and moaned the fate that had let her go to the U. S. and fail in a few miserably managed recitals. The lady, although it could not have been guessed by her thin, unshaped legs, was a dancer. The name she went by was La Argentina* and in Madrid she had long been a favorite. But the U. S.-bah! She closed her eyes and pretended to forget...
During the next dozen years Argentina's name grew big in Europe and again last year she was persuaded to come to the U. S., ostensibly for her debut. This time managerial circumstances were different and she herself had grown artistically. She became a sensation...