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...Vamp (music and lyrics by James Mundy and John Latouche; book by John Latouche and Sam Locke) goes to the early silent-film days for its fun, and comes back emptyhanded. Considering the many experienced people involved, this constitutes a kind of feat in reverse...
Comedienne Carol Channing alone should, at the very least, give an aura to defeat. And The Vamp often seems to be Carol Channing alone, but however well or hard she works, she herself seems a little defeated. The show itself, for the most part, just lies on its side and stubbornly refuses to move...
Died. Theda Bara (real name: Theodosia Goodman), 65. heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen (The Serpent of the Nile, Camille, The Vampire); of cancer; in Los Angeles. Cincinnati-born Theda Bara scored her first success in 1914 as the irresistible temptress of A Fool There Was ("Kiss me. my fool!"), was soon billed as "The Wickedest Woman in the World." became the subject of some of the most elaborate and preposterous pressagentry in screen history. Her first name, the publicists pointed out. was an anagram of "death.'' her last name "Arab" spelled backwards. She was born, they...
...Hollywood, the silent screen's original vamp, heavy-lidded Cinemactress Theda (A Fool There Was) Bara, 64, was whisked off to a hospital for a rush appendectomy...
...heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo (Mad Love) Negri, 56, suddenly popped out of retirement in Hollywood to disclose all sorts of irons in the fire. Pola, who used to outhawk her own pressagents with whoppers about her past (e.g., she once claimed that she had been divorced from a Pope of Rome), now made big talk about her future. Items: a movie comeback this fall as a fallen woman in a German production, an autobiography in the works which "will cover my life and loves from Chaplin to Valentino-and those who came before...