Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subscriptions cost 1,900 francs a year ($75). Electricians who come clumping in to install the device bring a loud speaker and two pairs of headphones. Thereafter the subscriber may listen, every night and two afternoons a week, to whatever may be sung at the Opera, or played in such famed theatres as the Odeon or Comedie Française. Already half a dozen hit-show theatres supplement this list; and Le Théatrophone seems to have definitely caught on. One typically French restriction is imposed. The subscriber may not switch from one performance to another while the first...
...understand the significance of The Kingdom of God, it is necessary to consider the circumstances of its production. The play was a Spanish one, by G. Martinez Sierra, offered by Lee Shubert. For its Manhattan premiere, the Shuberts had provided a brand new theatre named, after the most famous actress in America, the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The occasion was attended by notables. As well as notables there were play-reviewers who, chastened by Actress Barrymore's rebuke, later wrote that the play was bad and that she gave a beautiful performance...
Actually, the play was not very good and Actress Barrymore gave a bad performance. As a veiled religieuse she is found first in an old-men's home, later in a maternity home, lastly as the Mother Superior in an orphanage. In the first act (aged 19) she renounces her family, in the second (aged 29) she renounces her lover, in the third (aged 70) she persuades her orphans to renounce their plan of going on the streets to steal. A rambling, idle play, it had a few moments in which the hushed, sad peacefulness of cloistered life became...
Anne Nichols, playwright, took the witness stand, last week in Manhattan, in her $3,000,000 suit against the Universal Pictures Corp. for alleged pirating of her play, Abie's Irish Rose, in a Universal movie called The Cohens and the Kellys. Specimen questions & answers...
...court, Miss Nichols wore a mink coat and a velvet toque. Abie's Irish Rose has earned for her a personal profit of some $6,000,000. As a movie (Paramount), it is still running in the U. S. As a play, it opened last week in Berlin...