Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, President Samuel Insull let nothing interfere. In consequence when the Chicago opera ended its home season last week, it ended also its residence in the Auditorium which 40 years ago was dedicated by President Benjamin Harrison and Vice President Levi P. Morton, with incidental music by Adelina Patti. Romeo et Juliet had been the first opera, with Patti as Juliet, and Romeo was the valedictory last week, with Edith Mason for heroine. Next season will open a proud 42-story building on Wacker Drive...
...coming year to the producers of musical comedy. Like an abdicating heavyweight champion in their homely adoration, George White and others have decided to honor Shakespeare in the only way they know, with naked nymphs and syncopated madrigals. White's notion is a "modern musical version of Romeo and Juliet" but last week, rendered foolish by the astonishing success of his Scandals, he forgot about Shakespeare and said that he was going into the talking movie business. He was tired of soothing temperamental stars...
...four successive actresses: Marie Sheldon (1881-93*), Charlotte Behrens (1894-98), Marie Booth Russell (1900-11), Genevieve Hamper (1912-); in Atlantic Highlands, N. J. Born in Scotland, educated in Ireland, trained in England, he was first acclaimed in the U. S. when he appeared with Helena Modjeska in Romeo and Juliet...
...Slater, Mo., Ocie Wilson, Negro, killed Romeo Logan, Negro, in a crap-game fight. City marshal and constable came to take Ocie Wilson to jail. While they were taking him there, a large car without license plates cornered their auto against the curb. Twelve men, wearing masks, got out and pointed pistols. The men were believed to be Negroes. Learning of Logan's death, they had come to get Ocie Wilson...
...Albert Carroll and Dorothy Sands to make their burlesques in The Grand Street Follies of 1928 quite so hilariously exact as they did. The former simultaneously played Mrs. Fiske with the right side of his face and Ethel Barrymore with the left; Dorothy Sands played Mae West in Romeo and Juliet. Other impudent imitations were offered by Paula Trueman who appeared successively as Haidee Wright, Eva LeGallienne, and Helen Hayes...