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Dulcy
Dulcy (1921), a comedy by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. [Frazee Theatre, 246 perf.] Dulcinea Smith ( Lynn Fontanne) is an ambitious but feather‐brained young lady given to spouting bromides and getting her husband, Gordon ( John Westley), into jams whenever she attempts to help him out. Since Gordon is about to merge his business with that of C. Rogers Forbes ( Wallis Clark), Dulcy invites the Forbeses and their daughter Angela ( Norma Lee) for a weekend. She also invites the scenario writer Vincent Leach ( Howard Lindsay), who is in love with Angela; her brother, Bill ( Gregory Kelly); and a rich young man she has met at a party, Schuyler Van Dyck ( Gilbert Douglas). She manages to irritate Mr. Forbes by encouraging Angela and Vincent to elope and by having Schuyler offer to support Gordon in a venture in opposition to Mr. Forbes. But Blair Patterson ( George Allison) arrives, announcing that Schuyler is actually simply a harmless madman who thinks he is rich. Luckily for Dulcy, Forbes sees Patterson, who is an attorney for the real Van Dycks, and offers Gordon an even better deal than he did at first. And then it is discovered that Angela eloped not with Vincent, but with Bill. Though things have turned out well, Dulcy promises never again to meddle. After all, “A burnt child dreads the fire. Once bitten—” Heywood Broun wrote in the Tribune, “Dulcy is an ingenious trick play and the patter which introduces the legerdemain is even better than the stunts.” The George C. Tyler and H. H. Frazee production not only established the reputations of Kaufman and Connelly but made a star of Fontanne.
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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Dulcy." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Dulcy." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Dulcy.html Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Dulcy." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-Dulcy.html |
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Lindsay Rogers
Lindsay Rogers 1891-1970, American political scientist, b. Baltimore, grad. Johns Hopkins (B.A., 1912; Ph.D., 1915). He was (1914-15) a fellow in political science at Johns Hopkins before becoming (1915) professor at the Univ. of Virginia. In World War I he was attached (1918) to the general staff corps. He lectured (1920-21) on public law at Harvard and from 1920 to 1959 taught government and public law at Columbia. He was visiting lecturer at several colleges and universities and served with the New York state department of labor (1928), the National Recovery Administration (1933), and Public Works Administration (1934-36). He was director of the Social Science Research Council (1934-36) and a consultant to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (1952; 1956-59). His published work includes The Postal Power of Congress (1916), The American Senate (1926), Crisis Government (1934), and The Pollsters (1949). |
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"Lindsay Rogers." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Lindsay Rogers." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Rogers-L.html "Lindsay Rogers." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Rogers-L.html |
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Dulcy
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Dulcy." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Dulcy." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-Dulcy.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Dulcy." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-Dulcy.html |
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