Word: zo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in Brooklyn, William Beebe was educated at Columbia University. He has for many years been Honorary Curator of Ornithology of the New York Zoölogical Society. As you doubtless know, he is Director of the British Guiana Zoological Station, and here he spends a part of each year, collecting specimens, examining them, preparing his elaborate scientific data. But he has not confined his activities to the jungle; he has also traveled extensively in Asia, South America, Mexico...
...uneven revelation that a too passionate wooer can play right into his rival's hands. Despite its occasional irony, the play seems to be smitten with awe at moving among elegant folks in grand surroundings. With a first act that sparkles and others that go diminuendo, Miss Zoë Akins remains the broad-jumping playwright. She leaps off with a great rush, then loses momentum. Elsie Ferguson recovers in the courtesan role the warm, stirring undercurrent of her earlier acting. Throwing off the cataleptic spell of the cinema, she no longer seems to be waiting for a closeup. Except...
Again she has come forward with what might be crudely but clearly termed an assemblage of junk. Zoé Akins, who has written considerable worthy material for the stage (Déclassée, A Texas Nightingale), is noted on the program as the individual originally responsible. The play looks pretty much as though Arthur Hopkins (producer) took Ethel over to the Akinses one afternoon last Summer and said to Zoe, " Run up to your playroom, like a good girl, and bring down something bright for Ethel...