The Theatre: Belasco on Love

Last week, on the eve of the marriage of Operatic Actress Helen Gahagan and Melvyn Douglas, stars of David Belasco's Tonight or Never, Producer Belasco, filled with loving-kindness after three months on a sickbed, announced: "It was a case of love at first sight. I've seen many romances in the theatre, but none so fine, so oldfashioned, so honest.

... I make it a rule to bring together my future hero and heroine before I make my selection.

... I can't explain it, but I can sense how they will play together, in each...

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