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King Lobengula is played by a genuine Matabele warrior named Ndanisa Kumalo. A huge, jovial black, brought to England for the production, he proved to be a superb actor. In history, Rhodes stole King Lobengula's country; in Rhodes, King Lobengula steals the show...
...original cast of The Sea Gull at the Moscow Art in 1898. He soon found that organization too "bourgeois," moved on to St. Petersburg among the intellectuals. After the 1917 Revolution his anarchistic technique, based on the premise that any means is justifiable in bringing audience and actor closer together, made him for five years the master of theatrical revels in shell-shocked Russia...
...pageant of the life of the Confederacy's first & only President unfolds with little liveliness but much discretion. Opening on the 75th anniversary of Davis' inaugural at Montgomery, the play's cast numbered 36 minor performers, including a grandniece of Davis named Winifred Davis Crawford, and Actor Guy Standing Jr. The son and namesake of the cinema's Sir Guy Standing had been put on FTP's payroll at the regular $23.86 a week, was entrusted with the title role. Plan was for Jefferson Davis to run three days in Manhattan, then strike...
...nicely twisted gentleman's moustache is the man who somewhat naively solves "The Preview Murder Mystery." The plot hinges upon a cinema director's suspicion that his actress-wife, Gail Patrick, is in love with the hero of a film which he has just finished. Threatening notes warn the actor that he will never live through the preview, and true to form, he doesn't. Two more murders are committed before Denny, a movie publicity man, discovers the criminal. We warn you not to be too gullible in accepting obvious clues, because Paramount, Inc., is bent on deceiving...
...Republic. All hands agree to a collusive divorce, necessitating the employment of a professional corespondent, an honest girl from Tenth Avenue (Miss Conklin). The drama then resolves itself into the following questions: Will Miss Conklin put on the pink pajamas? If so, will she get into bed with Actor James Rennie? If so, will she spend the night? If so, will he do right by her next morning? Co-Respondent Unknown gives each of these inquiries the properly titivating answer. If Co-Respondent Unknown survives 100 nights, its run will be another tribute to the capable emotional stripteasing by which...