Word: vaudevillian
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...Garrick Gaieties, its chorus girls are sprightly if individualistic, the young men of the ensemble appear at home in tailcoats. Principals and choristers trip through some graceful routines. In the matter of humor, however, The Second Little Show is regrettably wanting. Chief funnyman is Al Trahan, longtime vaudevillian, whose comic antics on the piano, accompanied by a buxom blonde with whom he wrestles from time to time, are stretched out overlong...
...Olga Tschechowa. Fighter Schmeling, composed and earnest, is helped through his scenes by considerate direction; he is more convincing when amorous than during a tedious fight with a gargantuan opponent in which both cock their punches for the camera. The stage fights of one-time Champion Jack Dempsey, experienced vaudevillian and actor, with Estelle Taylor Dempsey, in the Manhattan play The Big Fight, were more realistic than this picture, but Dempsey acted on the whole more self-consciously than Schmeling. Well-read, interested in painting, the German takes seriously this chance at artistic expression and holds his end up well...
...child in Great Neck, L. I. The son of a Philadelphia milliner, he acted as a boy in a barnstorming troupe. His father had other ideas, sent him to the University of Pennsylvania, then out on the road to sell hats. But the son revolted, became a low-comedy vaudevillian, remained one for eleven years. In 1914 he was given a part in the Ziegfeld Follies. Other Wynn appearances were in The Perfect Fool, Grab Bag, Manhattan Mary...
...played by the splendidly silly Ferdinand Gottschalk, is too stupid to see, digging irrigation ditches because he does not believe in the pluvial generosity of the Egyptian gods, and finally escaping execution by persuading his gaoler that the gaol can be made to pay. Actor Jessel has hitherto been vaudevillian in his tendencies; now he shows himself as a player both subtle and adroit. In conjunction with Playwright Bloch's originality and George S. Kaufman's shrewd direction, this results in one of the season's more amusing pieces...
...France helped to make the operation seem dramatically sudden, it was not; Authoress Joyce's room at the hospital had been engaged for weeks. Last week one Barbara ("Billie") Riley, cinema dancer, prepared a breach of promise suit for $100.000. In the pocket of her fiance Joe May. vaudevillian, Dancer Riley claimed to have found a picture of Peggy Joyce inscribed: "To My Baby Joe, Love?...