Word: romeos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foundation in fact has this remarkable statement. As anyone can tell you, Miss Cornell has appeared only recently in such plays as Candida, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Romeo and Juliet, St. Joan, & others-all of them, to say the least, of it, "good" plays, wherein she has come off by no means second best. Both artistically & monetarily, as witness her production of St. Joan, she can well afford the risk...
...earlier plays are such bravura works as The Green Hat (1925), The Letter (1927), Dishonored Lady (1930). Few critics considered these or The Barretts of Wimpoh Street (1931) or Lucrece (1932) mon than a theatrical frame for Miss Cornell's great acting ability. Candida, St. Joan Romeo and Juliet, regardless of their merits, are not strictly Miss Cornell's plays, being revivals...
...show amiably bore out the theme of Anglo-American lese majesty. Called "Romeo and Juliet, 1936," it was played in three scenes, in each of which a stepladder served as the balcony. Scene I was between Juliet du Pont upon the ladder and Romeo Roosevelt below. Scene II between John Boettiger in Juliet's cap upon the ladder and Wooer William Randolph Hearst below. Scene III showed Mrs. Simpson (Helen Essary, wife of the Baltimore Sun's chief Washington correspondent) with Edward in Golden Crown (Newshen Elizabeth Mae Craig, correspondent for New England papers) below...
...Romeo and Juliet...
Johnson was no stranger to the Metropolitan. For 13 years he had kept his eminence there as an important romantic tenor, created more roles than any other tenor alive. Romantic ladies still heave when they recall his dreamy Peter Ibbetson, his wistful Pelleas, his tender Romeo. Forthwith he settled down to the more excruciating task of playing Romeo to the box office, the Opera Board and the biggest congress of temperament known...