RARE October 1919 Theatre with Alla Nazimnova cover by Hamilton King

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RARE October 1919 Theatre Magazine with color cover of Mme. Alla Nazimova by Hamilton King. FEATURES on the Co-Operative Theatre by Rollo Peters; Are Actors Laborers? On Actors’ Strike by Bruce McRae as discussed by Sir Charles Wyndham with Bruce McRae photo; Pity the Musical Comedy Juvenile by Donald MacDonald; A Woman oif No Imagination by C. Courtney Savage on Katherine Gibson with Gibson photo; Women Who Are Funny off the Stage by Maude Eburne; Rehearsing A Play by Granville Barker with Robert Edmund Jones setting sketch; Jimmying My Way into the Theatre by Octavus Roy Cohen with photo of Cohen; The Psychology of the Curtain by Geo C. Jenks; Another Surprise for Broadway by Ada Patterson on Allan Dinehart with Dinehart photo;
The Honest-to-Goodness Truth About me by Frances L. Garside; Is the Charlie Chaplin Vogue Passing by Harcourt Farmer with 6 Chaplin headshots; The Programme of Fashion with photo of Constance Binney, T. B. sketches, 6 of Kitty Gordon, 7 of Ina Claire in Peggy Hoyt hats, I of Jane Cowl in evening gown; Oscar Hammerstein Dead piece with photo;
Mr. HORNBLOW GOES TO THE PLAY on “The Challenge” by Eugene Walter featuring Holbrook Blinn, Louise Dyer, Ruth Benson, Al Dinehart, Georgie Lawrence, Fannie Bryant, Wilson Reynolds, Ben Jonson, Chas Sellon, C. M. Van Clieve, Harry Mainhill, Hallett Thompson, Frank Torpey, Wm Battison, Wm Smith, F. C. Bronson, Wm White, C. R. Brown, Wm Morgan, Fred Karr, Vici Ioucelli, Herb Bostwick, Frank Vogel…timely play on misunderstandings of labor and capital…chief success depended upon Jessie Glendinning, Holbrook Blinn, Allan Dinehart; “Those Who Walk in Darkness” by Owen Davis from Perley Peere Sheehan novel and starring L. J. O’Connor, Percival Knight, Percival Reniers, Geo Wilson, Art Shaw, Amy Ricard, Millie Freeman, Don Gallagher, Mabel Maurel, Kathryn Sheldon, Laura Walker, Ev Milburn, Consuela Bailey, Helen Tracy, Howard Kyle, Godfrey Matthews presented by Shuberts under injunction…Laura Walker provides emotional insight and power…Art Shaw equally admirable…Don Gallaher nicely sincere…Geo Wilson successful portrayal…Consuela Bailey cutely kittenish ingenue; “Up from Nowhere” by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson with Norm Trevor, Fred Howard, Olive Murray, Leotta Miller Margalo Gilmore, Geo Casselberry, Sato, Cecil Yapp, Grace Reals, Clarence Bellair, Ann Andrews…Booth Tarkington expert student of human nature…yet turns out characters and dialogue that fairly reek of the footlights…Norm Trevor not a happy bit of casting…Ann Andrews the exponent of her role as young, pretty and becomingly dressed, made the part convincingly real and human…Hercules Penny played with exquisite skill…Cecil Yapp a very good actor and literally triumphs in this role…Margalo Gillmore refreshingly girl-like…rest of cast from acceptable to hopeless; “A Regular Fellow” by Mark Swan featuring Ernest Glenndenning, Ev Butterfield, Dudley Clements, James Bradbury, Al Bushee, Edwin Holt, Chas Abbott, Roiy Gordon, GEO CUKOR, Miriam Sears, Margaret Greene, Charlotte Granville Kittie O’Connor…automobile references left me cold but other howled with delight…James Bradbury a rare comic asset made very real and amusing character…Ernest Glenndenning acted from beginning to end with flagless zeal and verbal fluency;
FULL PAGE PHOTOS of Dolly Sisters by Maurice Goldberg; Ann Pennington by Maurice Goldberg; Billie Burke by Abbe; Allegorical Dance Stury “Life and Death” by Maurice Goldberg with nature dancers; Hamilton King sketch of Lillian Kemble Cooper; Mary Miles Minter by Edward Thayer Monroe; Peggy Hyland by Edward Thayer Monroe;
NEWS ITEMS on New Year’s Resolutions of Julia Sanderson, Flo Ziegfeld, Ina Claire, Smith and Golden, Geo Arliss, Joe Cawthorn, Marilyn Miller, Don Brian, Frank Bacon, Ann Pennington, A. H. Woods, Elsie Janis, Eddie
Cantor, Chauncey Olcott, Geo M Cohan, Mr. and Mrs. Coburn; due to actors strike individual actors sued such as Francis X. Bushman, Elsie Ferguson, Fred Stone, Dustin Farnum, Nazimova, Douglas Fairbanks; mention of Geo M Cohan, Wm Brady reorganizing and acting themselves to survive strike; Cohan resigned from Lambs’ Club and Friars, Brady and Belasco followed suit; E. H. Sothern agreed to deal with individual actors but not as a group; Cohan promised to resign from Managers’ Association and form new actors’ organization and contribute 0,000 to it; Equity held series of entertainment at Lexington Theatre featuring Duncan Sisters, Marie Nordstrom, Ethel Barrymore, Conway Tearle, De Wolf Hopper, Marie Dresser and many others; Augustin Duncan brother of Isadora Duncan; Geo Kelly married to Ruth Gordon; Mary Ryan wife of Sam Forrest; May Irwin expert fisherwoman; Grace Valentine understudied Irene Fenwick; Joseph Urban began as architect in Vienna; Alice Brady clothes hobby; Lou Tellegen supporting wife Geraldine Farrar in movies; Tamaki Miura sung before King George and Queen Mary; Sir Henry Irving died in poverty; Christine Norman pupil of American Academy of Dramatic Arts; Follies Gal Lilyan Tashman to support Ina Claire in Belasco’s “The Gold Diggers,” vaudeville’s Nan Halperin under A. H. Woods management; Harry Clark and Marie Flynn married; Mary Garden born in Scotland; comedian Robinson Newbold debut with Viola Allen in “The Eternal City,” Mary Miles Minter achieved stage success in “The Littlest Rebel,” Ethel Barrymore has 3 sons; David Warfield began as water boy; Fay Bainter early child parts at Burbank Theatre; Lenore Ulric many cultural parts; Geo Broadhurst prior career as Chicago Board of Trade bookkeeper; Monroe Salisbury and Leopold Godowsky meeting; Elsie Janis in Selznick’s “Everybody’s Sweetheart,” first American director made European film “Twelve-Ten” by Herb Brenon and starring Marie Doro; Grant Watson’s novel “Where Bonds Are Loosed” filming in Florida by World; Carl Laemmle insists all his directors know the bible; Artco Productions purchased “The Capitol” by Augustus Thomas for Leah Baird; Upton Sinclair’s novels to be filmed by Walt McNamara; Alice Joyce in “The Winchester Woman” with Percy Marmont; Chas Ray stuttering effect; Metro purchases Rachel Crother’s “Old Lady 31,” Thomas Ince selected Gladys George from film showing of “The Better Ole,” Thomas Jefferson in Bert Lytell’s “Lombardi, Ltd.”; Stage Women’s War Relief picture written by Jessie Bonstelle “The Madonna of the Slums” cast includes Galli-Curci, Holbrook Blinn, Jeanne Eagels, Helen MacKellar; Admiral Rodman visiting Ince Studios; “The Royal Vagabond,”
PHOTOS of Guy Bates Post; Greg Kelly; Clifton Webb; Henry Hull; “Happy Days” at Hippodrome with 5 images featuring Poodles Hannaford, Belle Story, Lalla Selbini, Art Geary, Inez Bauer, Bert Levy “Fairyland” chorus scene; “Oh What A Girl” chorus; “Too Many Husbands” with Ernest Lawford, Estelle Winwood, Ken Douglas, Marguerite St. John; STRIKE FIGURES: producer group of Geo Broadhurst, David Belasco, Art Hopkins; Striking Actors line; Marie Dressler with striking actors; Striking players group of Flo Arnold, Doris Rankin, Ethel Barrymore, Louise McIntosh, Chas Coghlan, Lionel Barrymore, Conway Tearle; The Big Four of Equity Association: John Cope, Grant Stewart, Frank Gilmore, Francis Wilson leading parade of strikers; Eugene Walter’s “The Challenge” scene; Adolph Klauber’s “Nightie Night” scene with Suzanne Willa, Francis Bryne; Owen Davis’ “Those Who Walk in Darkness” scene; Ed Wynn; James Watts; Eduardo Ferrari-Fontana and bride; Bertha Kalich study by sculptor Harney; Marjorie Rambeau, Ina Claire; 5 photos of Geraldine Farrar Tellegen New York Residence; Peggy Wood; Sue MacManamy; Juana Ward; Dorothy Dalton; “Please Get Married” swimming pool scene; “The Wolf” scene with Earle Williams; “Come Watch With Me the Passing Night” nature scene; Edith Day; Helen Keller; Ora Carew; Peg O’ My Heart” scene with Wanda Hawley, Tom Meighan; Theda Bara scene; Miriam Cooper scene; Geo Loane Tucker “ The Miracle Man” scene; Virginia Pearson, J. H. Gilmore scene in “Impossible Catherine,” “The Lottery Man” dream scene with Wallace Reid;
FULL PAGE ADS for C. L. spider web illus. Mallinson’s Silk de Luxe; Erspason? color illustrated United States Tires Royal Cords; outdoor/moose illustrated Gidding; Victrola; illus. Steinway; Kathryn Perry for Vanity Fair Silk Underwear; Lenore Ulric in Mink Dolman for Jaeckel Furs; T. Johanson? illustrated Hampton Shops; Harry Morse Meyers illustrated Empire loom craft Silks; illustrated Rubay Carrosserie Automobile Company Cleveland; actress for Crystal Mills Knit Fabrics; illus. B. Altman Hats; illus. Onyx Hosiery; illus. Van Raalte Niagara Maid Glove Silk Underwear; Virginia Pearson Photoplays for Impossible Catherine” starring Virginia Pearson with page Pearson photo; illus. Paramount Artcraft Motion Pictures; Camel Cigarettes; back cover Murad illustrated.
ADS for Eleanor Henry for J. C. Ribbons; Belber Traveling Goods; actress in Revillon Freres Furs; Myster? illus. Balch, Price Furs; illus. Gunther Furs; Mme. Helena Rubenstein Valaze; Elizabeth Arden; illus. Boue Souers;
Boston Garter; illus. Evan’s Dipilatory; Milo Violets; Luden’s Cough Drops; illus. 20 Mule Team Bora Soap Chips; Pepsodent; illus. Hygienol; De Miracle; Azurea; Smith Brothers Cough Drops; Brown’s Salon Studios Costume Design De Luxe; illus. Egyptian Deities; Syncopation by Leland;
CONDITION: COMPLETE interior 78 pages filled with early stage, theatre, actors, actresses, stars, productions, producers, directors, industry news and history. Was part of bound volume therefore bare spine, restapled, old cover tear repair tar on right edge.