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...violin bow and fid- dling as the spirit moved him. Piano-Maker Theodore Steinway tried to impersonate bigheaded Richard Wagner. Violinist Albert Spalding caused a momentary stir when he came before the court and said: "I, Paganini, am not dead." He played none too well, and when Soprano Frieda Hempel did her old Jenny Lind act, she sang off pitch. But nobody minded, especially when Soprano Bori came forward. Soprano Bori that evening was Adelina Patti, dressed in crinoline, a wreath around her hair. "I, Adelina Patti." she said, "have a message for you from one of my much younger...
John Golden has gathered an extremely capable cast for such a frothy vehicle. Frieda Inescort has a more serious part than in "Springtime for Henry." As Mary Howard, an author, she has the unpleasant task to ask her publisher's wife to surrender the husband because she is really in love with him, and he believes himself to be in the same condition. One feels it would be much easier to doff the chain of virtue which Miss Inescort wears so self-consciously and skip off with the publisher, instead of being so deadly moody and moral about...
...Frieda S. Robscheit-Robbins reported that experiments on dogs of the University of Rochester had shown that plain liver is far more valuable as a builder of red corpuscles than milk, green vegetables or fruit...
Without doubt the play has suffered by the loss of Frieda Inescort, who played with the show for 25 weeks in New York, and is now engaged in the title role of Rachel Crothers' latest success "When Ladies Meet." Edith Atwater, Helen Claire, and Eric Blore, however, give a finished air to the production. Madge Kennedy would have been very much at home as Mrs. Jelliwell...
...Hoover and John Davison Rockefeller jig together with a chorus of little oil cans. Tunes: "Wouldja for a Big Red Apple?", "You're Not Pretty But You're Mine," "Satan's Little Lamb." When Ladies Meet (by Rachel Croth- ers; John Golden, producer). Everything Mary Howard (Frieda Inescort) did bore the hallmark of success. Her novels sold, the ivy on her Manhattan terrace grew, her life and friends operated efficiently. Yet she was lonely. Her closest male companion, an easy-going Philip Barry character named Jimmy (Walter Abel), adored her in an embarrassed, tail-wagging sort...