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...called A Trip to Pressburg and again The Face at the Window, it was written by Leo Perutz and produced by Max Reinhardt in Vienna in 1931 with Mrs. Ferenc Molnar as the leading lady. Three U. S. producers held rights to the show before the Shuberts had Harry Wagstaff Gribble revise it for presentation in Philadelphia in March 1933. The show failed. Next revisionists were Philip Dunning (Broadway) and Harold Johnsrud, whose version opened in Pittsburgh in November 1933 with oldtime Cinemactress Pola Negri as star. The show failed. Next year it was scheduled for another tryout in Boston...
...movies have strewn the entrails of the theatre all over the place," said Harry Wagstaff Gribble, noted producer and playwright, recently returned from Hollywood, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...
...effect of Lady Grayston's misconduct upon her young sister may seem less important dramatic material now than it did when Our Betters was performed on Broadway in 1917, but the conversation adapted for the screen by Jane Murfin and Harry Wagstaff Gribble still crackles. Constance Bennett's mannerisms and her loud voice, possibly a shade more metallic than she intends it to be, become her part. Violet Kemble-Cooper and Gilbert Roland (Luis Antonio Damaso De Alonso, son of a Spanish bullfighter), are the other most noticeable members of an expert cast, expertly directed by George Cukor...
...have chosen Groucho Marx. He lacks the manner, the appearance, the erudition proper to the post. Nonetheless, at the beginning of Horse Feathers (Paramount) it becomes clear that the trustees of Huxley College have been so haphazard as to select Groucho. thinly disguised under the pseudonym of Professor Wagstaff, for this honor. He is discovered on a rostrum, where the retiring president of Huxley is addressing the faculty and student body. Attired in a mortar board, with a tailcoat over his arm, Groucho is shaving his false mustache in a portable mirror while puffing a stogie. The retiring president asks...
...taking part in the meet which is being directed by H. T. Wagstaff '32 will sign the entry lists at Dillon Field House, and will be given equipment. The first three to place in each event will receive medals from...