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...Miss Claire's stage reputation were informed in a flood of publicity material what sort of a Thisbe this was who had charmed their Pyramis. The secret of her success seemed compressed into the following grave statement by Miss Claire (in an "interview" where she was discussing Mistresses Nell Gwyn, Cleopatra, Lady Hamilton...
Young Love. She was the little girl who got wet in Orphans of the Storm and wore an arresting white dress in Nell Gwynne. That has nothing to do with a play called Young Love which opened in Manhattan last week, except that Dorothy Gish, 30, is back on the stage playing opposite her husband, James Rennie, and Lillian Gish is still in the movies and still unmarried...
...Daisy. A listless musical comedy. The cast includes Marie Saxon, whose legs win her at least the title of "The American Mistinguett;" Buster West, cute and toothy juvenile dancer; Luella Gear, William Kent, Nell Kelly. And yet it is dismal, for the lines are feeble, the tunes ordinary. The story deals with a husband who plagiarizes a book on mountain-climbing so his wife will not know he has spent all his time in Paris, none in the Alps...
Middle Seventeenth Century. Writer-folk had always filled him with awe: he patronized a hack-writer till the scurrilous wag wrote a lucrative burlesque on his patron's foppish existence. King Charles thereupon gave Orlando escape as Ambassador Extraordinary to Constantinople though Nell Gwyn regretted that such a pair of legs should leave the country...
...Kreisler and Ina Claire also came in on the Aquitania-he with pleasant words for Composers Gershwin and Youmans; she with the sentence, "I don't mind who does the singing and dancing, so long as the author gives me plenty of funny lines." She was referring to Nell Gwynne, a musical comedy in which she will appear in Manhattan...