Word: 42nd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Take a Chance"--Apollo, 42nd Street--A regular rollicking Broadway musical comedy. Excellent dialogue from Jack Haley and Sid Silvers, and silver notes from Ethel Merman. A sure...
...surprise to see some two hundred cash customers waiting for seats in the Metropolitan lobby. Let us grant the truth of the lyric that "without a song a man's no good nohow" and say that those people were waiting to hear a song, "42nd Street." They had heard it, perhaps, as the Playgoer did, over the radio the night before. Even in the stage show, the best sequence was some hotcha dance routine by three white-draped cuties impelled by the tune "That Sentimental Gen'lman From Georgia" . . . and you can keep right on playing it, right on playing...
...they call it Two-Time Square, "the double cross roads of the world." Here is the locale, motif, and gospel of "42nd Street," intense, jazz-maddened moving picture of backstage life, now at the Metropolitan Theatre. The show is another "Broadway Melody" without as many song hits, perhaps, but certainly with better acting, ballet, and fiercer tempo...
...After the enormous reception accorded "Broadway Melody" producers shrewdly decided to reduce their allotments to song writers and corner the market in tap dancers and kick-in-the-pants comedians. The resultant decline in business almost sufficed to wreck America's greatest infant industry. Counter to this, however, "42nd Street" has at least one good song and a brilliant orchestra to play...
...Williams, professor of Economics, noted authority on banking and currency, will be the chief speaker at the 42nd annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers Association on Saturday, it was announced last night by W. L. W. Field, headmaster of Milton Academy, and president of the Harvard Teachers Association. The meeting will be held at the Commander Hotel, with a dinner at one o'clock followed by addresses by Professor Williams and John Erskine, author and professor of English at Columbia. Mark Sullivan, author and journalist, who was originally scheduled to speak, will be unable to be present because of illness...