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Unprecedented for a dancer was the tour given this season by La Argentina. From coast to coast she gave 49 recitals, eight in Manhattan, four in Chicago, two in Boston, two in San Francisco, four in Los Angeles where famed cinemactors flocked to watch her pantomime. Last week in Manhattan she was to have danced for a soth time, and to have sailed immediately thereafter to rejoin her ballet in Paris. But a cold, exhaustion seized her. Operation for appendicitis followed. Recital and sailing were canceled...
...their heroine. She lives in a sedate, tapestried mansion in Manhattan's Washington Square, has a dignified father, a smart dress shop on Madison Avenue, a generous and platonic gentleman friend named Larry Brennan. Her suitor is a rich and personable Englishman. Her lover is a Latin cabaret dancer. She goes to his rooms in the night, succumbs for the last time to his tender voice and hands, and in the early dawn, when he is less persuasive, poisons him with strychnine filched from her father's medicine chest. It is all scrupulously planned to give the realistic, factual impression...
...imagination a stained and elegant fiction about a creature of the shade, sinuous and fascinating. Katharine Cornell conveys enough of this quality to indicate what might have been possible. Her high cheek bones are blanched, yellowish, sickly, as she reminds her boyish suitor that she lay with the dancer before killing him. When she tears the telephone from the hands of the lover, twisting in his death agony, she is horrifying. But for the most part the play wavers between melodrama which would be stupid without Miss Cornell and realism which defeats her attempts to give the story a malevolent...
...native country "the old sow that eats her farrow." He has been back to Ireland only twice since he left: in 1904 to open Dublin's first cinema; the last time in 1912. In 1904 he married Nora Barnacle, Galway girl; they have two children; Singer George, Dancer Lucia (who last year wrote a play about a girl who fell in love with the Pont Alexandre-Trois, famed Paris bridge...
...days later went to Harbor Sanitarium to have out her appendix. Though cancellation of her passage to France helped to make the operation seem dramatically sudden, it was not; Authoress Joyce's room at the hospital had been engaged for weeks. Last week one Barbara ("Billie") Riley, cinema dancer, prepared a breach of promise suit for $100.000. In the pocket of her fiance Joe May. vaudevillian, Dancer Riley claimed to have found a picture of Peggy Joyce inscribed: "To My Baby Joe, Love?...