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Fishing from a yacht tender off Los Angeles, Julian Eltinge, female impersonator, struck a 190-lb. marlin swordfish, played it for nearly two hours, finally landed it. In the bottom of the boat the swordfish lashed violently, wounded Actor Eltinge in the abdomen, inflicted cuts upon other members of the party. Actor Eltinge was hurried to a hospital for an operation by Dr. Earl C. O'Donnell, one of his companions, who had been cut on the hand by the swordfish. Afterwards Dr. O'Donnell discovered that he had contracted bloodpoisoning...
From the rise of the second-act curtain to the end of the play the comedy is delightful. If the romantic moments fail to convince one of the sincerity of Ronnie as much as the "in vino veritas" moments of the drinking scene, it is not entirely the actor's fault. Where Miss Crothers' pen strays from the high road of comedy into her beloved bypaths of sentimentality the play is decidedly less interesting and certainly less well acted. At several points there is the dread possibility that sentimentality may prevail, but by a miracle the demon is kept just...
...Church of the Transfiguration near Fifth Avenue on East 29th Street was Rev. Dr. George Hendric Houghton. Kindly, white-bearded, he was a pronounced Anglo-Catholic, a follower of the Oxford Movement. Only once, in his youth, had he attended a theatre (to his death he never saw Actor Jefferson on the stage). But he had performed funerals for actors. He agreed readily to do so for Actor Holland. The Press heard of the incident, amplified it. Out of the welter of discussion which ensued throughout the U. S., there emerged the name & fame of The Little Church Around...
...morbid though it may be, The Father is an impressive play, intelligently acted. Most Manhattan critics, objecting to Actor Loraine's violent acting, forgot the violence was Playwright Strindberg's. Manhattan playgoers, more impressed, gave the players repeated curtain calls, demanded from tired Mr. Loraine a curtain speech...
When Shaw was 36 and a music critic in London, Ellen Alicia Terry, 44, was Britain's No. 1 Actress, playing in the company of Britain's No. i Actor, Henry...