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...pugilistic woodpile. Recently Harry Wills, for many years dark menace to the supremacy of two-fisted whites, was dismissed from the woodpile by a knockout at the hand of Paolino Uzcudun. The place of Mr. Wills was last week acquired by George Godfrey, 228½-pound blackamoor actor* of Leiperville, Pa. Mr. Godfrey disposed of Monte Munn, onetime Nebraska legislator, onetime wrestler, whose alma, mater is the University of Nebraska. Messrs. Godfrey & Munn were scheduled to fight twelve rounds. The referee checked the proceedings in the fourth, out of sympathy for Mr. Munn. He had been knocked flat...
Revelry pokes with ruthless imagination into the secret misfortunes of a President of the U. S. whom theatre-goers found it easy to think of as Warren Gamaliel Harding. The audience sees President "Easy" Markham (Actor Berton Churchill) as a stately tool of politicians who run the nation from a poker table stuck away in a private nook known as "the crow's nest." Because of his unwholesome faith in these cronies, he allows the White House to degenerate into what one of the characters described as an automat ("Because when you want to take something out, you just...
Engaged. Julia Wainwright Robbins Hoyt, 30, actress; to Louis Camera, actor. A onetime sketch artist for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, he made his first stage success in Cobra in 1924, and last winter appeared with Miss Hoyt in The Dark. She in 1914, aged 17, married Lydig Hoyt, clubman, divorced him in Paris in 1924. She made her stage debut with William Faversham, in a revival of The Squaw Man in 1921. The two years following she spent with Stuart Walker's Stock Co. in Indianapolis & Cincinnati...
...Willard Mack, prolific actor-playwright, last season produced The Noose, Lily Sue, Hangman's House, Honor Be Damned. He himself played in Lily Sue and Honor Be Damned. He has made 1,000 curtain speeches...
...First Affaire. They say that Gustav Blum, who produced this play, considers the ideal drama to be one requiring but a single set and only four actors. Accordingly Her First Affaire falls short of perfection by only one actor. In its cast of five is Aline MacMahon whose performances in Spread Eagle and Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon satisfied many a theatregoer that her tall, angular person is an almost ideal instrument for fateful, tragic roles. Here, however, she performs commendably as the knowing wife of a popular literatus who is beset by a flapper openly...