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...appearances on the Manhattan stage. Twice, with strenuous and pathetic spasms, like a fish in the grass, it flopped. There was a fairly unanimous feeling that the play would have lasted longer had it been played with more cunning and dexterity. When it became known that Richard Bird and Vivian Tobin were to appear in a second revival, theatregoers anticipated something that might brighten the last long week in Lent...
Third Woman Lost. Vivian Jackson has been buried in Indianapolis. She was riding with Sergeant Ralph A. Gordon, Indiana National Guard, when his plane went into a tail spin, crashed. Her death was the third tragedy among women in two weeks: Mildred Doran, Dole Flight passenger, disappeared in the Pacific; at Youngstown, Ohio, Gladys Roy, girl stunt flyer, stepped into her whirling propeller...
Topsy and Eva. Herein the Duncan Sisters are seen but not heard. The roguish one (Rosetta) plays Topsy, who flees all over snow-bound Kentucky chased by ogrish Simon Legree with his snapping whip. Vivian, the beautiful one, plays Little Eva, who flaps her white eyelids to see such sport. It appears to be a vehicle for Rosetta's clowning and as such compares unfavorably with her similar performances in vaudeville...
Engaged. Rosetta Duncan, elder Duncan Sister; to William Beri, cinema technical expert. Vivian Duncan, younger Duncan Sister, was rumored also engaged-possibly to Nils Astor, Scandinavian cinemactor. The sisters acted in Topsy and Eva, (TIME, Jan. 5. 1925); have long had a pact requiring a double wedding...
Patience. Gusto and gay abandon are the birthright of the rollicking operettas of W. S. Gilbert & Arthur Seymour Sullivan. And while Vivian Hart as the saucy dairy maid, James Watts as the lavender Bunthorne and Joseph Macaulay as the poet Archibald, carol sweetly, they play with more diffidence than zest. A chorus even less frolicsome than the principals was likened by one reviewer to "a daisy chain of serious Smith or Bryn Mawr girls." The proceedings are applauded in genteel style by players in two stage boxes, outfitted in the costumes of 1881. For those who prefer emasculated albeit musical...