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After those four years, any comment on the performance of the Chauve-Souris seems quite superfluous. Better typewriters than ours have rattled off their choicest superlatives in praise of the rotund personality of Balieff and the magnificently foolish or beautiful performance of his company. The fragments which have made up the repertory of Balieff's Chauve-Souris are by now the common property of all America. The drollery of the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers; the exquisite, breathless beauty of the porcelain pantomines; the gorgeous foolishment of "The Sudden Death of a Horse; or the "Greatness of the Russian Soul...
...impudent dandy who took no insults from a rotund Prince of Wales...
Ahmad, ex-Shah of Persia, seventh of the Kajar dynasty, youthful and rotund, learned last week in Paris that the Persian Parliament had deposed him, that he no longer had the right to be termed Sultan. Depatches stated that the 26-year-old exile "has wept continuously since receiving the awful news; great tears roll down his royal cheeks; he has shut himself in his private suite in his house near the Bois de Boulogne; he walks around in circles, lamenting his fate in Oriental fashion." The Baroness d'Erlanger, former Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, whom he had once...
Beau Brummel. John Barrymore does his most telling and versatile work since Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in Richard Mansfield's famous vehicle portraying the impudent English dandy of 1800 who would not take an insult from a rotund Prince of Wales who did not look as prepossessing as he. Mr. Barrymore's remarkable virtuosity enables him to look like Adonis at the height of the Beau's career; like Ernest Torrence upon his downfall; like Lon Chancy as the palsied wreck of the once famed gallant. The story really has its climax at the start...
...trick effect, venting against the actors all the exasperation with which the play had filled them up to that point. When volunteers were asked to come forward and protest, Heywood Broun, critic of The New York World, rolled prodigiously forward, accompanied by Bide Dudley of The Evening World. The rotund Broun seemed as happy as a freshman at a college lark. Afterwards, declaring that "the very ineptitude of the piece rises to magnificence," he admitted that he would not have missed it for the world...