Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oberammergau Passion Play, first acted in 1634 in gratitude for the cessation of the Black Death, was to be given every ten years. In 1674 the date was changed to fall on decimal years. The World War postponed the 1920 production until...
...merchandising deals that involved millions. Many a feature article has described quick-speaking, efficient, firm-jawed Mr. Schulte who took no vacation for 24 years and said his only hobbies were "business and family." Although of late Mr. Schulte has taken many vacations to Palm Beach, and learned to play games, his name has remained a symbol of hard-earned wealth...
...good time and seldom took a holiday. She was engaged to Charles ("Fastest Human") Paddock, but called it off. One winter there was a popular song called "Bebe, Be Mine" and even now when she goes to a cabaret the orchestra leader usually recognizes her and starts to play it-a gay, only lightly sentimental song. Bebe Daniels likes all games but likes swimming better and riding still better and best of all to drive a fast car fast. She is seldom arrested...
Jenny. So long as Jane Cowl appears delightfully arch, points her wit with her own sly, luscious laughter and plays the scales with her throaty voice, she will receive plenty of homage. But many of her admirers who see her in Jenny will wonder why so subtle and personable an actress permits herself to appear in such a stale, superficial play. Co-Playwrights Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon have pictured John R. Weatherby, a corporation lawyer who has pampered his family until they are all incorrigible. His wife's senile intimacies with a Russian prince and a willowy...
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...