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The Squab Farm
''The Squab Farm'' was a comedic play about the film industry staged on Broadway in 1918. It was written by Fanny Hatton and Frederic Hatton, and staged at the Bijou Theatre on Broadway. It starred several former film directors as well as actress Alma Tell and a 16-year-old Tallulah Bankhead in her first stage role. She was reportedly chastised for whistling in the communal dressing room, unknowingly breaking one of the theater's oldest superstitions and fellow actress Julia Bruns took pity on her and invited to share her dressing room. George Foster Platt directed. Helen Barnes also had a role in the show and a ''New York Times'' reviewer wrote in a May 14, 1918, that Barnes appeared to be the audience's favorite squab. The play was a satire that compared a motion picture set to a barnyard. Barnes played the role of Hortense Hogan. ''The Squab Farm'' closed after a four-week run.Bankhead, Tallulah (1952) ''Tallulah: My Autobiography''. Harper and Brothers. pg. 62 The show was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Hatton
Fanny Hatton (1875 – November 27, 1939) was an American playwright and screenwriter known for the works she wrote with her husband/writing partner, Frederic Hatton. The couple, who had many of their works presented on Broadway (theatre), Broadway—were known foremost for their comedies. Biography She began writing after her first husband, John Kenneth Mackenzie, was killed in Mexico in an incident that was widely covered. It was through her writing that she met Frederic Hatton, the drama critic who became her writing partner and second husband. Together they wrote dozens of plays and screenplays between 1912 and the early 1930s. Some of their Broadway productions include ''Years of Discretion'' (1912), ''The Great Lover'' (1915), ''Upstairs and Down'' (1916), ''Lombardi, Ltd.'' (1917), ''The Indestructible Wife'' (1918), ''The Squab Farm'' (1918), ''The Checkerboard'' (1920), ''We Girls '' (1921), ''Treat 'em Rough '' (1926), ''Synthetic Sin '' (1927), ''Love, Honor and Betr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Astaire
Adele Astaire Douglass (born Adele Marie Austerlitz, later known as Lady Charles Cavendish; September 10, 1896 – January 25, 1981) was an American dancer, stage actress, and singer. After beginning work as a dancer and vaudeville performer at the age of nine, Astaire built a successful performance career with her younger brother, Fred Astaire. The brother and sister act initially worked their way through vaudeville circuits, finally achieving a breakthrough with their first Broadway theatre, Broadway roles in 1917. Astaire became known for her talents as a skilled dancer and comedienne, starring in hit Broadway musicals such as ''Lady, Be Good (musical), Lady, Be Good!'' (1924), ''Funny Face (musical), Funny Face'' (1927) and ''The Band Wagon (musical), The Band Wagon'' (1931)''.'' The siblings took several of their more popular shows to Britain's West End theatre, West End during the 1920s, where they were soon international celebrities, meeting members of the British roy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Comedy Plays
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Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality Musicality (''music -al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousnes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1918 Musicals
The ceasefire that effectively ended the World War I, First World War took place on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year. Also in this year, the Spanish flu pandemic killed 50–100 million people worldwide. In Russia, this year runs with only 352 days. As the result of Julian to Gregorian calendar switch, 13 days needed to be skipped. Wednesday, January 31 ''(Julian Calendar)'' was immediately followed by Thursday, February 14 ''(Gregorian Calendar)''. Events World War I will be abbreviated as "WWI" January * January – 1918 flu pandemic: The "Spanish flu" (influenza) is first observed in Haskell County, Kansas. * January 4 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, Sweden, German Empire, Germany and France. * January 8 – American president Woodrow Wilson presents the Fourteen Points as a basis for peace negotiations to end the war. * January 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Rushmore
Vivian Rushmore was an American actress who had leading roles in several Broadway productions. She was cast in Charles Klein's 1914 production ''The Money Makers''. She played a fairy godmother in the 1912 Cinderella themed production ''The Lady Slipper''. She played a screenwriter in ''The Squab Farm'' (1918). She portrayed Bernice Warren in ''The Girl in the Limousine (play)'' (1919). ''Munsey's Magazine'' ran a portrait of her in 1914. In 1921, ''Theatre Magazine'' included an image of her wearing a white chiffon outfit in character as part of a spread on fashion in opera. Theater *''Belle of Mayfair'' (1907), as debutante *''The Lady Slipper'' (1912), as Fairy Godmother *''The Money Makers'' (1914) *''Fast and Grow Fat'' (1917), an adaptation of the story "Five Fridays", opposite Roy Atwell *''The Squab Farm'' (1918). portraying a screenwriter *''The Girl in the Limousine ''The Girl in the Limousine'' is a 1924 American comedy film starring Larry Semon and featuring Olive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Angeles
Albert Sidney Angeles (1875 – May 1950) was a theatre actor and director of silent films. Born in London, he worked in the USA as a writer and director for Vitagraph, later directing for Universal. Angeles acted on stage before his film career, as well as composing music. He quietly married film actress Edith Halleren (also spelled Halleran or Halloran) in 1913. In 1915, he was hired to make comedies for the Santa Barbara Motion Picture Company. That same year, copyrights were filed for ''Billy studies music'', ''Billy now a medico'', and ''Billy's stratagem,'' credited as "by Bert Angeles". These were part of a series of Billy movies. Angeles was cast along two other former directors in ''The Squab Farm'', a comedy on Broadway about the cinema world. In 1928, Angeles and Julia Parker starred in a singing, dancing and comedy show called ''One Born Every Minute'', which was written about by the magazine ''Billboard A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Bloomer
Raymond Bloomer (December 9, 1886 – November 1, 1948), was an American actor. He appeared in 22 films between 1913 and 1927. After receiving a scholarship, Bloomer left Rochester, New York, when he was 18 and went to New York to study music at a conservatory. Another student's illness led to his taking a part in a play. He went on to act in stock theater companies in several cities, including Buffalo, Detroit, and Montreal. His work in films included Vitagraph productions. Bloomer's Broadway credits include '' Naughty Marietta'' (1910), ''The Revue of Revues'' (1911), ''The Duchess'' (1911), ''Baron Trenck'' (1912), ''A Good Little Devil'' (1913), ''The Squab Farm'' (1918), ''King Richard III'' (1920), ''Macbeth ''The Tragedy of Macbeth'', often shortened to ''Macbeth'' (), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the physically violent and damaging psychological effects of political ambiti ...'' (1921), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Drayton
Alfred Drayton (1 November 1881 – 26 April 1949) was a British stage and film actor. Drayton worked in a brewery when he was 18 but having a good deal of amateur dramatics experience decided to go on stage. His first appearance on stage was ''The Beloved Vagabond'' at Cardiff in 1908 and his London debut was at the Haymarket Theatre the following year. He featured in several West End plays before going into films, including ''Bulldog Drummond'' (1921) and ''Dear Brutus'' in 1922. He starred in the 1931 musical '' For the Love of Mike''. On both screen and stage he had a successful partnership with the actor Robertson Hare a veteran of the Aldwych Farces. He was appearing with Hare in the play '' One Wild Oat'' at the Garrick Theatre at the time of his death in 1949. Filmography * '' Iron Justice'' (1915) * '' A Little Bit of Fluff'' (1919) * '' A Temporary Gentleman'' (1920) * '' The Honeypot'' (1920) * '' Love Maggy'' (1921) * ''A Scandal in Bohemia'' (1921) * '' The Squea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles M
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ǵerh₂-">ĝer-, where the ĝ is a palatal consonant, meaning "to rub; to be old; grain." An old man has been worn away and is now grey with age. In some Slavic languages, the name ''Drago (given name), Drago'' (and variants: ''Drago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Davenport (actor)
Harold George Bryant Davenport (January 19, 1866August 9, 1949) was an American film and stage actor who worked in show business from the age of six until his death. After a long and prolific Broadway career, he came to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he often played grandfathers, judges, doctors, and ministers. His roles include Dr. Meade in ''Gone with the Wind'' (1939) and Grandpa in '' Meet Me in St. Louis'' (1944). Bette Davis once called Davenport "without a doubt . .the greatest character actor of all time." Early life Harry Davenport was born January 19, 1866, in Boston. Harry came from a long line of stage actors; his father was thespian Edward Loomis Davenport and his mother, Fanny Vining Davenport, was an English actress and a descendant of the renowned 18th-century Irish stage actor Jack Johnson. His sister was actress Fanny Davenport. Career He made his stage debut - at the third Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia - at the age of five in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William L
William is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It became popular in England after the Norman conquest in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will or Wil, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, Billie, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie). Female forms include Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a compound of *''wiljô'' "will, wish, desire" and *''helmaz'' "helm, helmet".Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
