Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whisked to visit his sister Louise, the Princess Royal, now convalescent from her recent illness, at her snug home in Portman Square. That night he celebrated, went to the theatre for the first time since he fell sick a year ago. Intellectuals who tried to guess what play His Majesty would choose ruled out one, the U. S. musical comedy Rose Marie which ran in London with the persistency of an Abie's Irish Rose and has recently been revived. In past years King George and Queen Mary have seen Rose Marie a total of three times. Last week...
...know what special attraction Rose Marie has for the King," said a member of the manager's staff at Drury Lane, "unless it is that His Majesty likes the tunefulness of the play and the fact that there is nothing in the text to cause embarrassment or uncomfortableness...
Paul Robeson meant to be a lawyer. He took a two-year course at Columbia University, earned his degree. During that period, however, he performed in a Y. M. C. A. play which Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill happened to attend. So enthusiastic was O'Neill that he went backstage and begged Robeson to act in Emperor Jones. His law course finished, Robeson consented, and made a name as a big actor in Emperor Jones, All God's Chillun, Black...
...Tell God all my Troubles" and "Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho." Robeson will remain in the U. S. for two months, will sing at Rutgers College. New Brunswick, N. J.; at Toronto. Pittsburgh. Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Wis., Columbus, Ohio. In January he returns to London to play the Moor in Shakespeare's Othello. If successful, he may return with it to the U. S. Certainly next year he will take a concert tour as far west at California...
With the revelation of Miss Shotwell's identity her cheery confession became more understandable. She is a pianist. When she was 12, her father brought home his friend John Neal, to hear her play. So impressed was John Neal that upon his death in 1923 he left her $1,000,000 in Reynolds Tobacco stock. She sewed in her chinchilla coat a bar of the song she had played for John Neal, Liszt's Liebestraum...