Word: waitress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED -Pauline Lord painting the portrait of a penniless Frisco waitress summoned by mail to marry an aged Italian peasant. Great acting in a good play...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED ?The vineyards of California, some of the sunshine and some of the bitterness, told by an old Italian peasant, the Frisco waitress he married by mail and a shiftless, handsome farm hand...
...Student Prince. A large male chorus swings steins in the air and opens the college drinking chant. The prince in disguise falls in love with a waitress. Excellent voices, elaborate scenery, a seasoning humor and easily audible music are comfortably combined...
...will be recalled that this actress was welcomed by the London critics as one of the greatest of Americans (in Anna Christie). Her interpretation of the unlettered waitress who married by mail in the present play substantiates their judgment. So brilliantly did she play the part, so perfectly defined were her weaknesses and pathos, so irresistible her reading of the wistful lines that she swept the audience from its mental moorings. It is the opinion of these skeptics that to Miss Lord alone is due the thorough public triumph...
...SACRIFICIAL GOAT ? Ernita Lascelles ? Boni ($2.00). Joan Candler, waitress in her mother's boarding house, had an exhausting time becoming Joan Chard, that promising new star of the sophisticated theatre. Her marriage with David complicated matters?they loved each other with youthful violence, but, no matter what David did, he never seemed to be able to make any money. Eruptive misunderstandings followed the injection of the Shavian Moreby into their lives?his verbal pyrotechnics made Joan dizzy and David heroically annoyed and led to a triangular drama in which poor David was unwittingly cast for the part...