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...Miss Rambeau plays the toast of Budapest several years after she has grown cold. She is married to a prosperous farmer when the call comes to return for just one evening to the old life. Diamonds and champagne and gypsy music stifle the stolid virtues of the prosperous granary. The trip is, however, accomplished without immoderate-moral mishap, and her only difficulty is in explaining to her husband the next morning the presence of two gay dogs who have brought the cafe band to play under her rural windows as the sun comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 2, 1925 | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...Valley of Content. Marjorie Rambeau, one of the few actresses to have played a one-night stand on Broadway (TIME Jan. 28, 1924), returned last week in a trashy tale of scrambled emotions that all turned out to be a dream. Possibly the playwright can be pardoned some of the incoherence because it was a dream. She probably will not be pardoned. Sorrowing mother, dancing children, shots and harlotry-all the old devices of the thriller thump their weary way across the stage. All this to prove that existence in the country is safer than existence in the city. Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 26, 1925 | 1/26/1925 | See Source »

Sued for divorce. Ian Keith, actor, by Blanche Yurka Keith, actress. She charged alienation of affections, named Marjorie Rambeau, famed actress, with whom Keith appeared in As You Like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 14, 1924 | 7/14/1924 | See Source »

...remembered that some years ago Marjorie Rambeau met with her first great success in that violent melodrama, "The Eyes of Youth". Having at last seen the play without her charming presence, we wonder how she ever managed to do it. The task mush have been a great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/21/1924 | See Source »

...Road Together achieved a modern metropolitan record by opening and closing the same night. Playwright Middleton (author or collaborator of Polly with a Past, Adam and Eva, The Other Rose) objected to Marjorie Rambeau's "indifference" in performing; Producer Woods sustained his objection and the play was withdrawn. The next day the Woods office discussed cancelling Miss Rambeau's $1,500 a week contract; she was incapacitated with a "nervous breakdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 28, 1924 | 1/28/1924 | See Source »

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