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The Slim Princess
The Slim Princess may refer to: *''The Slim Princess'', a 1907 novel by George Ade * The Slim Princess (musical), a 1911 musical by Leslie Stuart and Henry Blossom; based on the novel by Ade *The Slim Princess (1915 film) ''The Slim Princess'' is a 1915 American silent comedy film directed by E. H. Calvert and starring Francis X. Bushman, Ruth Stonehouse and Wallace Beery. (This is believed to have been Beery's first full-length feature film.) The movie was w ..., silent film based on the musical * The Slim Princess (1920 film), silent film based on the musical {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ade
George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, librettist, and playwright who gained national notoriety at the turn of the 20th century with his "Stories of the Streets and of the Town", a column that used street language and slang to describe daily life in Chicago, and a column of his fables in slang, which were humorous stories that featured vernacular speech and the liberal use of capitalization in his characters' dialog. Ade's fables in slang gained him wealth and fame as an American humorist, as well as earning him the nickname of the "Aesop of Indiana". His notable early books include ''Artie'' (1896); ''Pink Marsh'' (1897); ''Fables in Slang'' (1900), the first in a series of books; and ''In Babel'' (1903), a collection of his short stories. His first stage work produced for the Broadway stage was the operetta ''The Sultan of Sulu'', for which he wrote the libretto in 1901. ''The Sho-Gun'' and his best-known plays, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Slim Princess (musical)
''The Slim Princess'' is a musical in three acts with music by Leslie Stuart and a book and lyrics by Henry Blossom. The musical is an adaptation of George Ade's 1907 novel ''The Slim Princess''. Blossom and Stuart's version of this story was adapted into a silent film first in 1915, and a second time in 1920. History ''The Slim Princess'' premiered on Broadway on January 2, 1911, at the Globe Theatre. It closed on April 1, 1911, after a 104 performances. The production was produced by Charles Dillingham and directed by Austen Hurgon. William E. MacQuinn served as music director, and the costumes were designed by Percy Anderson. The cast included Elizabeth Brice as Lutie Longstreet, Elsie Janis as Princess Kalora, Charles King as "Tod" Norcross, Joseph Cawthorn as Herr Louis von Schloppenhauer, Charles Judels as Count Luigi Tincagni Tomasso, Arthur J. Engel as Baluchistan, Queenie Vassar as Madame Saidis, Joseph C. Miron as Prince Selim Malagsaki, Julia Frary as Princess Je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Slim Princess (1915 Film)
''The Slim Princess'' is a 1915 American silent comedy film directed by E. H. Calvert and starring Francis X. Bushman, Ruth Stonehouse and Wallace Beery. (This is believed to have been Beery's first full-length feature film.) The movie was written by Edward T. Lowe, Jr. from a story by George Ade and play by Henry Blossom, and was subsequently remade into a 1920 film starring Mabel Normand. The farcical plot involves a princess of a fictional country, loosely based upon Turkey, in which obese women are prized and the normal-sized protagonist is widely regarded as being too slender. Plot As described in a film magazine, Alexander Pike, longing for new fields to conquer and willing to give a federal grand jury some time to forget him, takes a trip to Morovenia, where the ruling governor is desperate because Kalora, his oldest daughter, refuses to get fat enough to conform to the Turkish ideal of beauty and so be safely married off. The law forbids her younger and fatter s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
