Word: acts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the exception of the opening scene in the second act, in which Jack Cole and His Dancers turn in an expert and hair-raising number, the present offering at the Shubert dies a lingering and painful death. It seems strange a man of such high standing in the theatre as Mr. Schwab could have become associated with "Nice Goin...
...ship sails out of harbor bound for--no one seems to know, just "Outward Bound." Passengers gather in the bar and try to figure it all out. By the third act the ship has reached its destination, and they all know. With this fantastic idea as a frame-work, Sutton Vane wrote a play that hit the jack-pot on Broadway a decade or so ago. Recently William A. Brady has revived the play and it has hit the jack-pot again...
...show, packed with soldiers and sailors and their girls, is the Palladium's wartime revue. Evening's best laugh: a sign over a box reading 40 hommes, 8 chevaux. Most popular song: F. D. R. Jones. The military finale of Act I drops "air raid" pamphlets called Ruthless Rhymes for Little Nastiz from under the roof. Sample rhyme...
...years, there is small chance that they will prescribe it as such this winter. For sulfapyridine must be handled as carefully as dynamite. It often gives patients nausea, headaches, "nerves," even delirium. Further, the fact that the drug lays low Hemophili is no guarantee that it will act with equal success against the combined forces of the six or seven other less common organisms which also occur...
Andover never seriously threatened after the initial touchdown, chiefly because of a charging Crimson line led by Russell Stannard, who was especially effective in smearing the schoolboy passers before they could get act...