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...Some writers and cinema men. (For example, Charles Hanson Towne, poet; Carl Laemmle, movie actor; Ring Lardner, humorist; Briggs, McManus, Goldberg, cartoonists...
...Drury Lane Theatre, London, the management announced that, despite the praise of critics, Ned Kean of Old Drury-a play depicting the struggles and triumphs of the famous actor, Edmund Kean-would be withdrawn in a few days, as the support from the public, while enthusiastic, was small-too small. H. A. Saintsbury, the principal actor, was about to speak when a white-haired old gentleman stood up in the stalls. He said he had never missed a Drury Lane production for 50 years. The audience told him to sit down; he refused. "I'm so sorry," he continued...
...photographed, though looking quite as radiant as usual, told me that she has chosen Lummucks as the title of her new novel−the one which is a study of a foreign born servant girl working in America. George Middleton, the playwright, excited because of the difficulties between the Actor's Equity Association and the theatrical managers, and concerned for fear the poor author would fall in ruins between them: Here, too, Jesse Lynch Williams, a compiler of Why Not? and Why Marry? Clayton Hamilton, rescued from Hollywood and the motion pictures but apparently still interested in them; Robert...
SEVENTH HEAVEN?The Bowery of Paris reflected in the mirror of Romance, where a " very remarkable fella" (George Gaul) wins a "yellow haired wife" (Helen Menken). A new actor, the World War, takes the same old thrilling part that the Civil War played in the melodramas of 20 years...
...Gerald du Maurier, celebrated actor, thought the cartoon on the Prince was a great and harmless joke. He bought it for $40 and says he did not want it to get into the wrong hands and that he will not sell it to anyone in the world except the Prince of Wales. ". . . one day," he added, "it will be found hanging in the nursery of King Edward VIII at Windsor Castle...