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Engaged. Dolores, famed London artists' model .(Sculptor Jacob Epstein et al.); and Philip Yale Drew, actor; at London. Thrice married before, she once wrote the 'story of her busy love life for the Hearst papers. Excerpt: "One vernal spring morning Prince Hitendra [of Cooch Behar] asked me to marry him, but I was so startled at this unexpected proposal that I forgot I was already married, and told him bluntly I could never marry a black...
Shakespeare's extremely carnivorous Richard III was presented last night at the Wilbur theatre by Fritz Leiber and his company before one of the largest audiences that has attended these performances since they have been in Boston. As in "Lear" the actor is here again presented with the problem of giving a play which has very little dramatic precedent, but the result did not particularly suffer from this. Mr. Leiber in the part of the unscrupulous and ambitious Duke of Gloster gives a very cold interpretation. There is no ranting passion and violent action, but merely the bloodless, calculating sneer...
Because Edward Hugh Sothern, 70-year-old Shakespearean trouper, refused to be interviewed by reporters from the Amarillo, Tex., News-Globe, editor Gene Howe, irascible critic of Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, June n, 1928, April i, 19-29) referred to Actor Sothern as a "pink-toed high-hatter." Advised the News-Globe: "Don't pay any of your good money to see him." From the stage, Actor Sothern announced that he was returning to the management the $500 he was to receive for the performance, saying: "My toes are not pink. This is the worst thing that...
Dennis King, however, is a mild disappointment. His voice is faultless enough to be sure, but as an actor Mr. King is not a success, and woefully overdoes his part. His antics in the tavern are but a poor imitation of Douglas Fairbanks with far too much waving of arms and too many scowls of the vintage of 1900, and as the poor-but-honest king for a week, the reflection of John Barrymore is equally unimpressive. All the laurels for individual presentations go quite unchallenged to O. P. Heggie who gives a thoroughly convincing and extremely clever portrayal...
...different kind of picture, and far above the average. It has become almost axiomatic that any film that William Powell turns his hand to is worth seeing, and the present opus is no exception. As usual he gives a polished performance, this time of a down and out actor who still has his ambitions of a great career, and comes within an ace of realizing them. Fay Wray and Hal Skelly are well cast and give thoroughly adequate and convincing performances, while the woman who proves the stumbling block to the actor's hopes of fame is played to perfection...