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Word: bluebeard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1923-1923
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...satire on the futility of first family ways. It much resembles Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. POLLY PREFERRED - From the lobby of the Biltmore to the lots of Hollywood in quest of the non-stop record for making a movie star. Genevieve Tobin in the spotlight. LITTLE Miss BLUEBEARD-A concoction by Avery Hopwood in which Irene Bordoni plays with the sunny side of shady matrimony. Musical Shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Comedy | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

Little Miss Bluebeard. It seems necessary simply to note that Avery Hopwood's signature is attached to this interlude and that Irene Bordoni emerges from musical comedy to play the lead. Anyone who has even a cursory acquaintance with matters theatrical will conclude correctly that it is a farce, that it deals in marital problems with an engaging indelicacy, that it smartly amusing. Added footnotes must contain the intelligence that Miss Bordoni sings four songs with her customary success; that Bruce McRae plays her leading man; that one Eric Blore, a recent acquisition from London, does the ultimate silliest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magnolia | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

...cararet for evicting him and against the barman for refusing to serve him with drinks. No sooner had the Prince's suit been filed than Maître Moro Giafferi, most famous of all French lawyers, offered his services to the Prince. Maître Giafferi defended Caillaux, Landru (the French Bluebeard) and Mme. Bessarabe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Jim Crow Scandal | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

...Bluebeard's Eighth Wife. Gloria Swanson had something in the matter of plot to work upon when she plunged into this picture. Accordingly she emerged with a good performance to her credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 13, 1923 | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

...American theatregoer now running in London. Pauline Lord and Anna Christie are at the Strand. E. U. R. and its robots persist at the St. Martin's. The British edition of the Music Box Revue at the Palace, So This Is London! at the Prince of Wales, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, Partners Again, Secrets, a New Yorker could almost spend every night of a week in London seeing plays he had already seen in America, Though why he should is, of course, quite another matter. And then there is From Dover Street to Dixie at the; Pavilion, a new revue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In London | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

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