Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When a play has been publicly suppressed by Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain, it can still be privately performed before a "subscription audience." Last week such an audience of smart Londoners assembled unblushingly, rustling with anticipation, to see sardonic Alfred Savoir's suppressed drama The Lion Tamer or How the Englishman Was Eaten...
Dream of Love has what millions of cinema fans want-a beautiful heroine (Joan Crawford) and a handsome hero (Nils Asther) making love in a romantic setting (the mythical Kingdom of Kuremme). The spirit and most of the best lines are inspired by the "legit" play, The Command to Love. A little wittier than most dramas of a prince wavering between a throne and an actress, Dream of Love leans heavily on the sex appeal of Actress Crawford, called "Venus of Hollywood." After each new film Miss Crawford receives ardent letters from thousands of high-school and college boys...
Operettas, of course, are all absurd and The Red Robe, adapted from Stanley Weyman's novel, is no exception. Yet it made a good play 25 years ago, in which William Faversham starred, and now it makes a gay and gaudy minstrel show for Walter Woolf. In the story of Gil de Berault, who was sentenced to death for duelling and paroled by Cardinal Richelieu in time to achieve fortune and a beautiful partner for the final curtain, there is proper material for brocaded dresses, sword play, romantic songs and fustian foolery. All this has been contributed. Helen Gilliland...
...most popular play that ever ran in Manhattan was Abie's Irish Rose, which closed with its 2,400th performance on the night of Oct. 22, 1927. No one ever learned what glib compelling secret Anne Nichols had put into her play to make so many people want to see it. She herself has not been able to repeat its success; imitators have been unable, in story, play or cinema to duplicate its homely attractions...
...remember my play. I haven't read it for a long time...