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Dates: during 1920-1929
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INTERFERENCE?English actors agreeably cool and collected as a girl takes prussic acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 19, 1927 | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

INTERFERENCE?In which a girl is given prussic acid as an antidote for blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...benefit of those who do not remember, it may be recounted that Shaw assembled four of the finest physicians in London and made three of them ridiculous in the acid comments of the fourth, snow-haired dean of the profession. Woven through the ridicule is the dilemma. Shall the great doctor who has discovered a quick cure for tuberculosis apply it to a worthy, unsuccessful fellow man-of-medicine, or to a blackguard artist who can paint great pictures. He cannot cure both; his perplexity is enhanced by his passion for the artist's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

...Peggy Ann" is bound to get all tangled up in superlatives. Not since "Merry Merry" has there been such intelligent musical show--and both entertainments prove ably that dumbness and stupidity are not necessarily essential to the song-and-dance carnival. "Peggy Ann" is even satirical and slightly acid in places but don't let that bother you; you can either--take it or leave it alone. It has a story--and what a story. It seems there was this little girl from Glens Falls. At the end of the first scene she falls asleep and everything goes black. From...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEGGY GETS HER SUMMA; HELEN--THE NEW FORD | 12/1/1927 | See Source »

INTERFERENCE?In which a girl is given prussic acid as an antidote for blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 14, 1927 | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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