Word: wolf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...devices of religion in a commercial play. He has used the correspondingly obvious emotional devices of war in The Enemy and will probably reap vast rewards. To one practiced in the Theatre or toa layman fastidious in the matter of emotional stimuli, it will sound like the cry of wolf, wolf. And, curiously enough, Mr. Pollock is said to believe that he is a great evangelist of human faith and progress. Probably such a belief is necessary to such a play. Without faith one cannot be furiously one-sided...
Married. For the sixth time, De Wolf Hopper, 67, famed Thespian, to Lillian Glaser, 29, singer, widow of a California dentist; at Hartfod, Conn. Mr. Hopper's five former wives were named respectively Ella, Ida, Edna, Nella, Ella. Edna, still billed in vaudeville as "Edna Wallace Hopper" is now advertising, at 50? and $1.00 a box, "the beauty aids which keep me at my grand old age (51) looking like a girl." In 1881 Comedian Hopper appeared in a confection labeled: One Hundred Wives...
...first meeting of the year of the Theatre Goers Club, held yesterday in Emerson Hall, E. E. Clive, director of the Copley Theatre, and De Wolf Hopper took turns at entertaining and amusing a large gathering of students interested in the theatre...
When Mr. Clive had finished, Mr. De Wolf Hopper, veteran of light opera fame, took the platform and with booming voice that filled every corner of the room, spent an hour recounting amusing incidents of his long and varied career...
...hear many people tell you that the glamor of the stage wears off quickly, but I have not found it so," De Wolf Hopper, whose career as a comic actor dates back to the last quarter of the nineteenth century, yesterday told a CRIMSON reporter...