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Died. Robert Bruce Mantell, 74, famed classic and romantic actor (East Lynne, Fedora, many a Shakespearean role) ; husband of four successive actresses: Marie Sheldon (1881-93*), Charlotte Behrens (1894-98), Marie Booth Russell (1900-11), Genevieve Hamper (1912-); in Atlantic Highlands, N. J. Born in Scotland, educated in Ireland, trained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

People Don't Do Such Things. Suavity is a rarity in the equipment of U. S. playwrights. Suavity was, among other things, badly needed in this selection. It was needed to tell neatly the story of a man who loved numerous women; married two of them; survived to see...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

The Gossipy Sex. A Stamford (Conn.) audience advised Producer John Golden to take this play to Manhattan. It concerns a lisping tattletale in trousers, who so irks a houseful of guests that the Chief of Police himself yields to an itch to plug the stream of slander with a bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

The principal character is a Miss Shoe, a birdlike spinster with insatiable appetite for gossip and detective work. For this part Jean Cadell, who played it first in London, was imported. She gave a fluttery, decisive and yet half frightened impersonation, which promptly included itself in the half dozen examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: May 10, 1926 | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

Mary Blair plays the role of Lady Isabel, who runs away with the mustached and booted villain and comes to no good end in Paris. Miss Blair is more often associated with the plays of Eugene O'Neill, having created more of his heroines than any other actress. She...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Mar. 22, 1926 | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

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