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Four days later she was to appear in Margaret Kennedy's Escape Me Never!, the play in which Actress Bergner first spoke English and in which she took critical London by storm last year. To promote her Manhattan debut, Producer Cochran and the Theatre Guild had dragged out every threadbare cliche known to theatrical ballyhoo. Actress Bergner was billed as a shy recluse, inordinately modest, simple, unaffected, fond of Wiener Schnitzel and dogs. "She works harder than any other member of the company," said one account. "She is the first to arrive at the theatre, and she spends...
Playing together for the first time this season, the Gerry twins at 1 and 3, ably supported by Fred Ayer '37, who made his tanbark debut with the Jayvees, took a hotly contesting First Corps Area trio...
Sembrich did her flawless trills in Lucia di Lammermoor at the second performance given in the Metropolitan Opera House. (Downtown at the old Academy of Music Adelina Patti was singing.) Sembrich sang with Caruso when he made his U. S. debut in 1903. She was with the Metropolitan when it visited San Francisco at the time of the great fire. Caruso, who was shaken out of bed, would never sing in San Francisco again. Sembrich was frightened, too. But she stayed to give a concert, earned over $10,000 which she divided between the choristers and the orchestra players...
...made 74 serials and features. A onetime rodeo performer, he lives on his San Fernando Valley ranch with his wife, whom he married on horseback, when they were both performing in a Wild West Show. Onetime cavalryman, aviator, trick-roper and auto-mechanic, Buck Jones made his cinema debut as an extra in 1917, became a major Fox star, at $2,500 a week. He now owns four horses, four dogs, three expensive cars, supports an So-piece band to represent his "Buck Jones Rangers' a national organization of 3,000,000 members, from 8 to 18. Says...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House resembled a miniature sitting-room one afternoon last week. The antechamber was shut off from the house by a glass partition. In it were flowers, a shaded lamp, a piano and a charming white-haired lady. Geraldine Farrar was making her debut as raconteuse for the Metropolitan broadcasts...