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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theatre (now the 39th Street Theatre). With Lionel Atwill as leading man, she toured the country playing Ibsen. For several years she acted in Metro cinemas, following the vampire tradition established by Theda Bara, Louise Glaum, et al. Metro's president at that time was B. A. Rolfe, stunt cornetist, now director of the Lucky Strike radio dance orchestra. Last year Nazimova quarrelled with Eva Le Gallienne, quit the latter's Civic Repertory Company after a short engagement. A small woman with a mass of black bobbed hair, she lives in Westchester County. N. Y., wears costumes decoratively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 31, 1930 | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

...theatre. At noon and at ten in the evening we have an hour for recreation when we are allowed to sit. The theatre men keep watch on us all the time. In the evenings we broadcast our orchestra over the radio or do a vaudeville stunt. Always in the same costume, we have been run through Mexico, Panama, British Columbia, Brazil and Argentina, and have crossed the continent. We leave Boston for Halifax now, and hope to reach Hollywood in a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frank Fielding, Perennial Pedestrian, Scarcely Sits During Deadly Triennial Trek--Eats Eggs Endlessly | 3/28/1930 | See Source »

...studying on route, and hope to graduate at the end of our contest. Once a week we are required to write summaries of R-K-O pictures, which, however, we seldom get a chance to see. My stunt in the theatres is roller skating and skip roping, which earned me the title of 'skipping fool...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frank Fielding, Perennial Pedestrian, Scarcely Sits During Deadly Triennial Trek--Eats Eggs Endlessly | 3/28/1930 | See Source »

...intercollegiate athletics, as manifested by the presentation to him yesterday of a token of the esteem in which he is apparently held by the editors of that collegiate journal. On the other hand, it is regrettable that there was no way of avoiding so bare face a publicity stunt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAKING HEY-HEY PAY | 2/19/1930 | See Source »

Yesterday's "event" is hardly worth getting worked up over, but it would be inconsiderate not to point out to the editors of College Humor the dubious value of the stunt they perpetrated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAKING HEY-HEY PAY | 2/19/1930 | See Source »

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