Word: selena
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studied backstage life and listened to Duse's reminiscences. Curtain Call is a futile and impertinent attempt to stir the ashes of Duse's affair with Gabriele D' Annunzio. Feebly directed and stuffily acted by Ara Gerald and a supporting cast which includes Elaine Cordner, Selena Royle and Guido Nadzo, it achieved the ultimate indignity of being laughed at by first-nighters in passages intended to be solemn...
...with Avenue A when 15,000 debutantes, ward heelers, American Legionaries, professional party-trotters, bearded Henry Latham Doherty, head of the national Ball Committee, and Mrs. Sarah Delano Roosevelt mingled in the five ballrooms of the Waldorf-Astoria. A "Pageant of America," staged by Ned Wayburn, began with Actress Selena Royle as the Atlantic Ocean, attended by Miss Lorraine Fielding as "Seaweed." They were followed by Dancer Ruth St. Denis as "Cotton," Actress Peggy ("I Love Brooklyn") Wood as "Grapes," and Mary Virginia Sinclair, daughter of Harry Ford Sinclair...
...riders of a tandem bicycle, at the desk where Loving is thinking about writing an autobiographical novel. They have different notions as to how the book should end. When Loving & Co. go home for dinner, the reason for their dual presence is partially explained. John Loving married his wife (Selena Royle) when, distraught by the deaths of both his parents, he had lost his faith in God. Now he has begun to lose his faith in his own love for his wife because one of her friends (Ilka Chase) has seduced him. When John Loving starts to tell the story...
...book that Mary Howard is in the process of finishing, the wife understands the plea of the other woman in love with her husband and blandly surrenders him, but when the ladies really meet under unusual circumstances in the country Claire Woodruff (Selena Royale) is very unsympathetic, and even the husband (Herbert Rawlinson) when confronted by both wife and mistress, male like chooses his wife, thereby being deserted by both. This is what Miss Crothers attempts to draw through three acts...
...appears capable, her publisher. The fact that he already has a perfectly good wife and two children deters neither of them. Mary will go to his wife, talk things over sensibly, prove that the husband should be released. It will all be very logical, very civilized. But the wife (Selena Royle) and Mary do not meet under such well-ordered conditions. The interview turns into a scene. In the end neither woman wants the publisher and Mary is last seen considerably dazed but with faithful Jimmy's head resting on her knees...