Word: mowbray
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amorous Antic. Harlow Balsam (Frank Morgan) is engaged in writing a play which incorporates such progressive features as a girl on a bicycle and a bishop, both nude, but appearing in total darkness. His wife Sena (Phoebe Foster) is painting a geometrical portrait of Percival Redingote (Alan Mowbray) who, in turn, is about to carve a bust of Sena. Because Miss Foster is a brittle beauty, Mr. Morgan an absurd farceur, and Jo Mielziner, who designed the scenery, knows how to burlesque the futuristic trend, this satire on ultra-modern estheticism by Novelist Ernest Pascal (The Marriage...
...country sun, this dull trifle was used as an excuse for bored and wintry sarcasms. It repeated, stupidly, the theatrical cliche of the wife who wanted her husband to love her and whose trite appetites were gratified through the complicating assistance of her husband's friend. Alan Mowbray, of Theatre Guild scrub casts, wrote it himself, a handicap which his histrionic ability was not sufficient to overcome...
David Belasco's It's a Wise Child, by virtue of its title and the presence of Harlan Briggs, spry farceur, should be racy, garrulous. A comedy, Dinner Is Served, by one Alan Mowbray, will include the author in its cast...
...Russell, the stud groom of Edward of Wales's stable stood at one side of the straw-covered arena of the Leicester House Repository at Melton Mowbray in the heart of England's hunting country. Rain was drumming on the roof and a dozen policemen strove to hold back the crowd. Inside the rows of boxes around the ring were jammed to suffocation and smartly dressed women clung perilously to railings. The Prince of Wales's 12 hunters were being sold...
Bidding began. Big-boned Miss Muffet went to a Captain Petry for $3,675. Degomme, which won the Guards point-to-point for the Prince, went for $1,730 to Victor Emanuel, a U. S. sportsman who hunts frequently at Melton Mowbray. Another American, Mrs. Adamson, who hunts with the Quorn, got a beautiful hunter, Lady Doon, for $1,750. One horse, Just an Idea, the Prince could not bear to part with, and it was withdrawn. The sale brought $20,000 in all, a ridiculous sum as U. S. prices...