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Apollo (Paris)
The Apollo is a former French music-hall venue located at 20 rue de Clichy in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. History The Apollo Theatre had a removable stage (now destroyed) called ''basculo'' conceived by the engineer Félix Léon Edoux. In 1909 the Czech conductor and composer, Ludvík Čelanský, was artistic director and head of the symphony orchestra of the Apollo. The actress Jane Marnac, her husband Keith Trevor, and Camille Wyn directed the Apollo in 1929 and 1930. ''The Merry Widow'' (Franz Lehár) and ''Rêve de Valse'' ( Oscar Straus) were premiered in the theatre. In addition, Carlos Gardel, Argentinian tango singer, made his Parisian debut here.Cadicamo, Enrique, ''Historia del tango en Paris'', Buenos Aires, Corregidor, 1975 Repertoire * 1913 : ''La Jeunesse dorée'', operetta by Henri Verne, music Marcel Lattès, with André Lefaur * 1914 : ''La Fille de Figaro'' by Maurice Hennequin and Hugues Delorme, music Xavier Leroux, with Jane Marnac * 1918 : ''La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Félix Galipaux-Le Comte De Luxembourg-1912
Felix may refer to: * Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name Places * Arabia Felix is the ancient Latin name of Yemen * Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain * St. Felix, Prince Edward Island, a rural community in Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada. * Felix, Ontario, an unincorporated place and railway point in Northeastern Ontario, Canada * St. Felix, South Tyrol, a village in South Tyrol, in northern Italy. * Felix, California, an unincorporated community in Calaveras County Music * Felix (band), a British band * Felix (musician), British DJ * Félix Award, a Quebec music award named after Félix Leclerc Business * Felix (pet food), a brand of cat food sold in most European countries * AB Felix, a Swedish food company * Felix Bus Services of Derbyshire, England * Felix Airways, an airline based in Yemen Science and technology * Apache Felix, an open source OSGi framewor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Barde
André Barde was the pseudonym of André Bourdonneau (July 1874, Meudon – October 1945, Paris), a French writer best known for his libretti for operettas. He was active from 1899-1936. He frequently collaborated with Charles Cuvillier Charles Cuvillier (24 April 1877 – 14 February 1955) was a French composer of operetta. He won his greatest successes with the operettas ''La reine s'amuse'' (1912, played as ''The Naughty Princess'' in London) and with '' The Lilac Domino'', ... - ''Son petit frère'' (1907), ''Afgar'' (1909), ''La Reine joyeuse'' (1912), ''Florabella'' (1921), and ''Nonnette'' (1922) being some examples. His works include '' Pas sur la bouche'' (1925; in English: "Not on the Mouth"), which has been filmed twice. External links Barde at the ECMF 1874 births 1945 deaths French musical theatre lyricists French opera librettists People from Meudon French male dramatists and playwrights {{Opera-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what ''Time'' magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise"."Noel Coward at 70" ''Time'', 26 December 1969, p. 46 Coward attended a dance academy in London as a child, making his professional stage début at the age of eleven. As a teenager he was introduced into the high society in which most of his plays would be set. Coward achieved enduring success as a playwright, publishing more than 50 plays from his teens onwards. Many of his works, such as '' |
John Colton (screenwriter)
John Colton (December 31, 1887 – December 26, 1946) was an American playwright and screenwriter born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He spent the first 14 years of his life in Japan where his English father was a diplomat. After returning to the US he soon worked for a Minneapolis newspaper. He is best remembered for adapting, with Clemence Randolph, Somerset Maugham's novella ''Rain (short story), Rain'' into a 1922 smash hit play starring Jeanne Eagels. He wrote the original play, ''The Shanghai Gesture,'' produced on Broadway theatre, Broadway in 1926. He excelled at writing plays dealing with Americans in far-off lands, an experience Colton knew firsthand from his early youth in Japan. With these huge successes Colton was lured to Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood, primarily MGM, where he wrote intertitles for some silent films, silent films and scenarios for others. In the talkie, talking film era he wrote numerous screenplays. Three of his stage plays found motion picture p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Méré
Charles Méré (29 January 1883 – 2 October 1970) was a French film director, screenwriter, and playwright. Biography Méré was born in Marseille, France, and was president of the ''Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques'' (Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers, or SACD) from 1929 to 1944. Méré was the author of 41 plays, including six for the Grand Guignol, and librettist of three lyrical dramas. He co-produced two films and a couple of movies were made from his works. Selected filmography *''Les Trois Masques'', directed by Henry Krauss (1921, based on the play ''Les Trois Masques'') *'' The Flame'', directed by René Hervil (1926, based on the play ''La Flamme'') *'' Le Vertige'', directed by Marcel L'Herbier (1926, based on the play ''Le Vertige'') *''The Masked Woman'', directed by Silvano Balboni (1927, based on the play ''La Femme masquée'') *'' Prince Jean'', directed by René Hervil (1928, based on the play ''Le Prince Jean'') *''Temptation'', d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Moreno
Marguerite Moreno (born Lucie Marie Marguerite Monceau; 15 September 1871, Paris - 14 July 1948, Touzac, Lot) was a French stage and film actress. On 12 September 1900, in England, she married the writer Marcel Schwob, whom she had met in 1895. In 1905 he died of pneumonia while Moreno was away on tour.Goudemare, Sylvain (2000). ''Marcel Schwob ou les vies imaginaires''. Le cherche midi éditeur (p. 328) Selected filmography * '' Captain Fracasse'' (1929) * ''Paramount on Parade'' (1930) French version only * '' A Hole in the Wall'' (1930) * '' Let's Get Married'' (1931) * '' Alone'' (1931) * '' Miche'' (1932) * '' Cognasse'' (1932) * ''The Champion Cook'' (1932) * '' The Porter from Maxim's'' (1933) * ''The Weaker Sex'' (1933) * ''To Be Loved'' (1933) * ''Les Misérables'' (1934) * ''The Queen of Biarritz'' (1934) * ''Paris-Deauville'' (1934) * ''Casanova'' (1934) * ''Excursion Train'' (1936) * ''Confessions of a Cheat'' (1936) * ''Girls of Paris'' (1936) * ''Let's Make a Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Carco
Francis Carco (born François Carcopino-Tusoli) (1886–1958) was a French people, French author, born at Nouméa, New Caledonia. He was a poet, belonging to the ''Fantaisiste'' school, a novelist, a dramatist, and art critic for ''L'Homme libre'' and ''Gil Blas''. During World War I he became an aviation pilot at Étampes, after studying at the aviation school there. His works are picturesque, painting as they do the street life of Montmartre, and often being written in the ''argot'' of Paris. He has been called the "romancier des apaches." His memoir, ''The Last Bohemia: From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter'', contains reminiscences of bohemian life in Paris during the early years of the 20th century. He had an affair with the short story writer Katherine Mansfield in February 1915. The narrator Raoul Duquette of her story ''Je ne parle pas français'' (who has a cynical attitude to love and sex) is partly based on him, and her story ''An Indiscreet Journey'' is based on her j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmer Rice
Elmer Rice (born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein, September 28, 1892 – May 8, 1967) was an American playwright. He is best known for his plays ''The Adding Machine'' (1923) and his Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of New York tenement life, '' Street Scene'' (1929). Biography Early years Rice was born Elmer Leopold Reizenstein at 127 East 90th Street in New York City. His grandfather was a political activist in the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. After the failure of that political upheaval, he emigrated to the United States where he became a businessman. He spent most of his retirement years living with the Rice family and developed a close relationship with his grandson Elmer, who became a politically motivated writer and shared his grandfather's liberal and pacifist politics. A staunch atheist, his grandfather may also have influenced Elmer in his feelings about religion as he refused to attend Hebrew school or to have a bar mitzvah. In contrast, Rice's relationship with his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Baur
Harry Baur (12 April 1880 – 8 April 1943) was a French actor. Initially a stage actor, Baur appeared in about 80 films between 1909 and 1942. He gave an acclaimed performance as the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in the biopic ''Beethoven's Great Love'' (''Un grand amour de Beethoven'', 1936), directed by Abel Gance, and as Jean Valjean in Raymond Bernard's version of ''Les Misérables'' (1934). He also acted in ''Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset's'' silent film, ''Beethoven'' (1909), and in ''La voyante'' (1923), Sarah Bernhardt's last film. In 1942, while in Berlin, to star in his last film ''Symphone eines Lebens'', Baur's wife, Rika Radifé, was arrested by the Gestapo and charged with espionage. His effort to secure her release led to his own arrest and torture. He was being falsely labelled as a Jew but confirmed freemason. He was released in April 1943, but died in Paris shortly after in mysterious circumstances. American actor Rod Steiger cited Baur as one of his favorite a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace De Carbuccia
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ''Odes'' as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96. The only other lyrical poet Quintilian thought comparable with Horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, Caesius Bassus (R. Tarrant, ''Ancient Receptions of Horace'', 280) Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (''Satires'' and ''Epistles'') and caustic iambic poetry ('' Epodes''). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bayard Veiller
Bayard Veiller (January 2, 1869 – January 16, 1943) was an American playwright, screenwriter, producer and film director. He wrote for 32 films between 1915 and 1941. Biography He was born on January 2, 1869, in Brooklyn, New York to Philip Bayard Veiller. He was married to English actress Margaret Wycherly from 1901 to 1922; their son, Anthony Veiller, was also a screenwriter. Veiller first broke into Broadway theatre with ''The Primrose Path'', a play that he wrote and produced. It was a failure and left him broke, although it later served as the basis for the 1920 film, '' Burnt Wings''. His first success as a playwright was '' Within the Law'', a hit on Broadway in 1912-1913. It was later adapted as a movie five times. Veiller continued to write plays as he began screenwriting. His later Broadway hits included ''The Thirteenth Chair'' and ''The Trial of Mary Dugan'', which were adapted as films. The play ''The Thirteenth Chair'' had been licensed for production in Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
