Word: tragedian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lewis, the Pied Piper of Happiness, Ol' Man Sunshine, the Medicine Man for Your Blues, the High-hatted Tragedian of Song, was back in town. A quarter of a century had passed, and incredibly, the old show was still going on. Among the bamboos and potted palms of Manhattan's Hurricane restaurant, he cocked his shabby topper over his ancient and leering eye and abandoned himself to his 1920 classic When My Baby Smiles...
Three hours had passed. John Lewis stepped off the witness chair, gathered together his entourage, steamed majestically from the committee room. The echoes of his blank prose died: the stage emptied. The great tragedian, whom no vegetable-throwing gallery has ever been able to silence, had played another scene...
Died. Henry Edward Dixey, 84, matinee idol of the 80's; of injuries in a traffic accident; in Atlantic City. The Great Profile of his day, romantic juvenile, tragedian, comic-opera star, specialty dancer, he played the title role in Adonis for a record 603 performances on Broadway...
...loudest and brashest performances of his whole career John L. Lewis this week defied the President of the U.S. All his long, pent-up hatred of Franklin Roosevelt boiling over, John Lewis, like an angry, ranting, old-style tragedian, flatly rejected requests made in the name of his country...
...completely conceived was the stage play that its leading character, heartless, ambitious Regina Giddens, is played by Tragedian Bette Davis with scarcely an accent's difference from gruff Tallulah Bankhead's interpretation of the original Broadway role. This was not Miss Davis' idea. She quarreled with gap-toothed Director William Wyler (Jezebel, Dead End) for her own version. He-or the play-won. Result: the films' foremost dramatic actress not only acts like Tallulah but looks like...