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...London, the first night of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, with Pauline Lord in the title role, received a tremendous ovation. After the first act the curtain was rung up a dozen times during the applause...
...Jersey-when it develops that he, too, is a successful bootlegger. The real father then conforms to the exigencies of the plot by reforming under the beneficent charms of the child. A happy curtain is rung down. The cast is well selected, and Alice Brady, who takes the leading role, gives, according to the critics, a notable performance. Heywood Broun: "We saw one of the finest performances the American theatre has known in our time." Percy Hammond: "Nice, rough, nursery stuff, calculated to charm the sophisticated drama lover who wishes to be made a child again just for tonight...
...Hollywood" Robert J. Flaherty, producer of Nanook of the North, sailed for the South Seas to film Samoan life and customs before the natives start charging a couvert-charge for their own variety of hula-hula. "Cinderella of Hollywood" is the nickname of Eleanor Boardman, who plays the leading role in Rupert Hughes' new cinema play, Souls for Sale. A year ago, according to all accounts, she was not even a "super." Her course led her from her home in Germantown, Pa., to Broadway, to a chorus part, to three small movie parts, to the leading role of Souls...
After much competition Miss Margaret Sheridan was selected to create the prima donna role of Candida in Respighi's new opera, Belfagor, which is to be produced in a month at the La Scala house in Milan, Toscanini conducting. Some four years ago Miss Sheridan appeared in Covent Garden, London...
...business community that the greater part of the opera audiences are drawn. Egyptians are generally indifferent. Italians, Greeks, Syrians, but above all, Jews, support the opera. Puccini, once supreme with Egyptian audiences, is losing his hold. Next to Aida, the greatest success this season was Mefistofeles, the title role being magnificently sung and acted by Masini Pieralli. German opera is expected next winter...