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By way of sharpening the contrast, already glaring, between Gladstone and Disraeli, he pictures two extremes in Mary Anne Disraeli, loquacious, garish, flighty; and Catherine Gladstone, industrious, charitable, but merry withal. Nothing could be more respectable than Gladstone's cadenced marriage-proposal in the moonlit Colosseum; nothing more indecorous...
Falstaff is a comedy, compounded by James Plaisted Webber from Shakespearian scenes and others from his own imagination. In it there are many snatches of tune, lyrics by Brian Hooker, Falstaff's famed expose of "honor" and a false ending in which Prince' Hal bows to Anne Page...
The most popular play that ever ran in Manhattan was Abie's Irish Rose, which closed with its 2,400th performance on the night of Oct. 22, 1927. No one ever learned what glib compelling secret Anne Nichols had put into her play to make so many people want...
One cinema, The Cohens and Kellys, which dealt with the same situation (Irish-Hebrew romance), achieved some box-office attention. Accordingly, last week, Anne Nichols, asking $3,000,000, was in court to sue Universal Pictures Corp. for plagiarism. The trial proceeded in the higgly-piggly fashion of plagiarism suits...
Anne Nichols, playwright, took the witness stand, last week in Manhattan, in her $3,000,000 suit against the Universal Pictures Corp. for alleged pirating of her play, Abie's Irish Rose, in a Universal movie called The Cohens and the Kellys. Specimen questions & answers: