Word: vivien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...died nearly two years ago. His brothers and sisters are trying to recover $30,000,000, which they say he lost from the estate by mismanagement, from his ten children by two marriages. Of the seven older children by his first marriage- Kingdon, Jay, George Jay Jr., Marjorie, Vivien, Edith, Gloria- three eloped, one married an English nobleman, and one the daughter of an Hawaiian princess...
...huge scale. A total of 22 scenes takes the spectator everywhere from the League of Nations Meeting at Versailles to a lavishly-decorated Top of the World, and each separate number is a pleasingly varied form of dance, song or humor. The Purcella brothers do some clever dance specialties, Vivien Oakland sings well, and John T. Murray keeps the audience in laughter during a short act of miscellaneous small talk entitled "Out Front." Marie Dressler is amusing as always, but the real comedian of the show is Al Brendel, who, as Yonson the Swede, is vastly entertaining. Every time...