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...play opens in a sanitarium. Clown Tito (Barrymore) is seeking a specific for his melancholy malady of love which causes him to weep at the most minute excuse. Luigi (Ian Keith) is in the same consultation room suffering from an opposite affliction, occasioned by his excesses. He laughs ceaselessly, senselessly...
Simonetta is the specific for them both. In the second act she succumbs to Luigi's importunities. The third discloses Tito surrounding himself with mirrors, defying the clown to make the clown laugh. As he pricks his heart a group of children passing the window interpret the action as comic pantomime and stand, laughing, at the window while the curtain falls...
Floriani's Wife. Academically interesting, but not emotionally vigorous, this play by Luigi Pirandello (Italian playwright, who wrote Six Characters in Search of an Author) arrived in a Greenwich Village theatre, off the beaten Broadway track. It tells of a wayward woman, her attempt to return to her child and husband, her failure. Margaret Wycherly is the redeeming feature. But even the fire of her intelligent performance shines but dimly under the bushel of interminable talk...
...Empress Elizabeth was assassinated on Sept. 10, 1898, by Luigi Luccheni, anarchist, while walking from a hotel in GeneTa to a steamer...
...Herbert Samuel, Nathan Sokolow, Oscar S. Straus, Baron Rothschild, Samuel Untermyer, Felix M. Warburg, Sigmund Freud, Simon Flexner, Julius Rosenwald, Irving Lehman, Julian W. Mack, Leon Trotzky, Max Lieberman, Adolph S. Ochs, Ahad Ha'am and Abram I. Elkus, Albert A. Michelson, Henrietta Szold, Jacques Loeb, Luigi Luzzati, Leopold Auer, Cyrus Adler, Herman Bernstein, Lee K. Frankel, A. I. Kook, David Belasco, Samuel Gompers, Israel Abrahams, Max Reinhardt, Joseph Rosenblatt, Sir Alfred Mond, Milton J. Rosenau, Jakob Wasserman, Jascha Heifitz, Maximilian Harden, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Otto Warburg, Jacob Epstein, Joseph H. Hertz...