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...York was the rage in Berlin from 1901 to 1906. One night she was invited to the Imperial Palace, commanded to wear either lavender or black. She chose her own costume ?white?but the Kaiser was interested. At the Metropolitan in Manhattan, where she made her debut in 1906, she continued to have her own way. As the goosegirl in Die Konigskinder she drove the property man to distraction by her successful insistence upon having live geese on the stage. She was the only Metropolitan prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing room. Two older singers...
...week's second happy legitimate debut (see below), oldtime Song-&-Dance Man Fred Stone turns in a vivid characterization as hot-blooded "Ace." A great parodist in his time, Actor Stone shines best when, as the persuasive stumpster, he drops into Western, Southern or Irish dialect at will, depending on whom he is trying to persuade. Unconsciously, he confuses the part a bit by also imitating Will Rogers, Eddie Foy and Glenn Anders from time to time...
After a decorous debut party in 1929 and two years at Barnard, Jane Wyatt did her best to conform to the routine for stage beginners by making the round of theatrical offices. The round lasted only until she reached the office of Charles Hopkins who promptly engaged her for an ingenue role in Give Me Yesterday. One season in stock, at the commodious summer theatre in Stockbridge, Mass., a few more appearances in Manhattan, prepared her for Hollywood. In her first picture (One More River), Jane Wyatt performed so well that she got the lead in her second, Great Expectations...
Nova is a compliment to her maternal grandmother, who came from Nova Scotia. By far the most famed child actress in England, Nova Pilbeam is by no means a British Shirley Temple. Now 14, small for her age, she made her stage debut at 5, in an amateur children's fantasy, started to act professionally...
...Paramount). This version of Alice Hegan Rice's homely novel of the 1890's provides a cinema debut for able Actress Pauline Lord (Anna Christie, The Late Christopher Bean). As a poor goodwife in a decrepit shack, her activities include mothering five moppets, hoping her husband (Donald Meek) will return from the Klondike with gold, accepting charity from a rich girl and the rich girl's suitor. Mrs. Wiggs befriends a fluttery spinster (ZaSu Pitts) whom she aids in acquiring a husband (W. C. Fields) from a matrimonial agency. Mrs. Wiggs's second son dies...