Word: rachel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Susan and God (by Rachel Crothers; produced by John Golden). With the consummate stage artistry of Gertrude Lawrence brought whimsically to bear on the egregious Oxford Groupers (Buchmanites), Rachel Crothers and John Golden last week brightened up Broadway's hitherto lacklustre season with Susan...
Died. Osgood Perkins, 45, suave stage and screen actor (Beggar on Horseback, The Front Page, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Ceiling Zero, Point Valaine, etc.); of a heart attack after the opening performance of Rachel Crothers' Susan and God, in Washington...
...first woman to spoil him; of the others, he remembered back to the ''fair ladies" who, while he was still in his cradle, aroused his "precocious sensuality" with their tender duckings. At kindergarten age he acquired his "abiding penchant for actresses" when Actress Rachel patted him on the head. In clerical college he smarted, did little studying, because the main honors went automatically to sons of the nobility. Smarting ever after, as an old man he let loose against the college a blast of irony that all but put it out of existence, having first advertised...
That one was the face of a beautiful youth. Old Baruch could not supply his name, so Rachel called him Zanko. For Zanko, and sometimes for old Baruch, Rachel danced like Isadora Duncan, sang like Schumann-Heink...
...Rachel grew fond of him, but it was Zanko she loved. And it was to find Zanko that she ran away. In Istanbul, where she danced and sang for her supper in waterfront dives, she found him. Alas, he was not what he seemed. All he wanted was . . . her body. When Rachel discovered that the real Zanko had been his twin brother, whom he had murdered, she drowned herself. Old Baruch, who had been searching for her, found her in time to get her death mask made, sent it to Michael as a souvenir...