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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heads Up! Routine musicomedy, nautical, garnished with splendid new numbers by Lorenz (words) Hart and Richard (tunes) Rodgers ("Why do You Suppose?" "It Must Be Heaven," "A Ship Without a Sail") dervish whirls by shapely Barbara Newberry, croaking comedy by Victor Moore who thinks a mutiny is an afternoon performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Far from being the hypersensitive and woeful person she often appears on the stage, Actress Le Gallienne has always been busy and capable as a dynamo. Her parents were Poet Richard Le Gallienne, now of Rowayton, Conn., and the second of his three wives, Julie Norregaard, a Danish-born London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Paul Muni grew up traveling with the stock-companies in which his father and mother had parts. When he was 11, they needed someone to play an old man. The thin boy with his piping voice made up well in the part. When he was a little older he worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Footlights and Fools (First National). In wigs and short silk dancing clothes, against elaborate colored settings Colleen Moore plays a French actress in love with a race-track tout. The wandering story is handled in the superficial awkward way common to films in which the plot is merely a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

For a year and a half the Pavlowa company trekked down the East Coast of South America, across the Andes, up the West Coast to Panama, thence to Cuba, Mexico. When she returned to the U. S., Ruth was given the leading role in John Alden Carpenter's ballet, The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Indianapolis Dancer | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

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