Word: schildkraut
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...effulgence, reflected from the lights of Broadway. His name began to appear with increasing frequency in theatre-programs as the composer or arranger of incidental music. Liliom audiences may still recall and whistle his Look Out, Here Come the Damn Police, as vividly as they remember the acting of Schildkraut. He composed the pantomime used as a prelude to John Drink-water's Mary Stuart. He arranged the old songs used in Fashion, and wrote A Kiss in Xanadu, which provided the loveliest moments in Beggar on Horseback. He is now the official "incidentalist" for the serious metropolitan stage...
...dancing girl. She unwittingly betrays her people by falling in love with a French spy, masquerading as an Arab to learn of the regular monthly Tuareg rebellion. The happy ending is easily anticipated, although she stabs herself. In her first semi-vamp role, Miss Talmadge makes good. But Joseph Schildkraut seems to be working under wraps. Atmosphere is generally excellent, being obviously hand-made only in the girl's name-Noorma-Hal, fashioned from the cable address of the Talmadge company...
...appearing on the professional stage for the first time, gave to the part of the Nun a vibrant grace, a magnetic personality that made her quite the cynosure of the beholders. Lady Diana Manners was supremely beautiful as the Madonna, Werner Krauss magnificent as the crippled piper, Rudolph Schildkraut peculiarly powerful in the portrayal of several roles...
...Young's glorious portrayal of General Burgoyne in The Devil's Disciples, now running in Manhattan, gives him a foothold somewhere below the niches of the famous. He may hoist himself upwards by other, more difficult performances. To those who rush with arguments regarding Leslie Howard, Joseph Schildkraut, Jacob Ben-Ami, Geoffrey Kerr, it need only be said that all of them first saw the sunlight and the footlights on the opposite side of the Atlantic...
...Rudolph Schildkraut in King Lear...