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Happy Pixy. At first glance the situation seems appalling. Has the town that nourished the pneumatic legends of Theda Bara and Clara Bow and Jean Harlow sold out to a giggly beer drinker? Answers...
...score, boldly conducted without score by Conductor Yuri Faier (he is almost blind, can see only the dancers' silhouettes), is unabashedly romantic, gently moving in its lyric flights, occasionally distracting when the onstage movements are too welded to its melodramatic moods. The acting style is sometimes reminiscent of Theda Bara and the silent films: the wildly staring eyes and clawing hands of grief, the shaking fists upraised in righteous anger. At one point, Romeo stands with roses in one hand and a human skull in the other, registering alternate hope and despair with the instantaneous reflexes of a Pavlovian...
...First Person Plural Dagmar, now 58, presents a jaunty flashback to the splendiferous silent days "when money was thrown to the winds [but] always landed right back in the box office." Publicity departments "[made] us all creatures of fantasy" so that Theda Bara tried to live up to her studio's statement that "her coming was prophesied on the Nile in the ancient days when Egyptians lived there." Margaret Livingston served a formal tea to her cat every day at 4 ("Ask Paul Whiteman. who later married her"), while Nazimova was the only member of the "nobility of Bedlam...
...swarming demand for studio space has revived and even expanded old movie lots that had been virtually silent almost since the silent movie days. In the Kling Studios where Charlie Chaplin made The Gold Rush, and on lots that twinkled with the names of Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd and Janet Gaynor, TV now grinds out commercials and films-Burns & Allen, Ozzie & Harriet...
...about the only man" who keeps on shortening rather than lengthening his write-up. Harry S. Truman keeps insisting that the S is a full middle name, thus should not have a period after it. † For Who's Who's 1920-21 edition, Movie Vamp Theda Bara proudly pointed out that her papa had ceased to be a Goodman, was now legally Bernard Bara, to conform with her screen name. During World War I Lady Randolph Churchill (néee Jennie Jerome of Brooklyn) unaccountably failed to list Winston as her son. A correction from Harry Houdini...