Word: tragedian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Sylvia Sidney (née Kosow), 28, cinemactress, divorced wife of Publisher Bennett ("Beans") Cerf (Random House); and Luther Adler, 35, actor (Golden Boy), youngest son of the late Tragedian Jacob P. Adler of the Royal Family of the Yiddish theatre; in London...
Among the outstanding American Hamlets there are pictures and playbills of the productions of Junius Brutus Booth and his more famous son, Edwin. A playbill, dated 1864, announces the appearance of the eminent tragedian John Wilkes Booth, brother of Edwin and assassin of Abraham Lincoln, in the role of Hamlet at the Boston Museum...
Achilles Had a Heel (by Martin Flavin: Walter Hampden, producer) is a distressing piece of mumbo-jumbo showing Tragedian Hampden as a Negro elephant-keeper in a zoo. Mr. Hampden and the invisible elephant love each other for being big. strong, noble. When a high-yellow wench, urged on by a jealous monkey-keeper, saps Mr. Hampden's integrity, the elephant, outraged, knocks his friend down with a blast of dusty air. The monkey-keeper gets the elephant job. makes a mistake, is promptly killed...
Immaculate in a faultless dress suit and wearing the battered silk topper for which he is internationally famous, Ted Lewis, the "High-hatted Tragedian of Song", walked in from the stage of the Metropolitan Theatre in Boston where he is appearing this week, and obligingly submitted to a few pertinent questions by the CRIMSON reporter...
With a rush and a wave of the hand the "High-Hatted Tragedian" dashed to his dressing room to rest up before the next...