Word: barkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Mr. Lowden has stood thus, he has been shouldered aside by a burly, blatant, sideshow barker from the city, whose ambition is not to sit in the chair himself but to call the crowd, direct the act and lead the ballyhoo. Mr. Lowden's enemy of old, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, has spellbound the bystanders and gained mastery of Illinois, and perhaps a lot more Lowden territory, by an opportunism from which gentlemanliness is omitted with a frank grin. Nor is the Thompson grin as foolish as it looks...
...fruit of his reflection appeared last week at Manhattan stores (The Three New Yorkers, Inc., Abercrombie & Fitch Co., Mark Cross Co., Saks & Co., Fifth Ave., Lewis & Conger, Ovington's, B. Altman, Elizabeth Pusey) at a Chicago store (Peacock) and at a Los Angeles store (Barker Bros.). It was a three-wheeled barrow, of tea-wagon appearance, containing lock compartments for liquor, an ice receptacle, niches for bottles, glasses, ice-picks, opener, knives, spoons; a cedar drawer for 500 cigars; a tray; an oak board for slicing fruit; a musical attachment designed to play certain tunes. This machine-the "Baker...
...elderly cattleman, the father of the hero Hank who in portrayed by Charles Leatherbee '29. Jessic Hill, Radcliffe '30, in the other juvenile lead. In the character of Jessic Thayer, a young school mistress, she is woed by Hank Morgan. Francis Small, Radcliffe '28, takes the part of Sabina Barker, a shrewd and clever woman of the West...
...settings, which are perfect, even to the posters outside the tent which optimistically portray the attractions to be found within, and the midway strollers who succumb to me lure of the Barker's fluent magic, contribute to the success of the climax, in which the Barker, about to quit the show, hears the inadequate substitute drive the crowds away, and jumps into the breach. One leaves with a new respect for the profession of bally...
Broadway's producers, who in the crucial moment of selection are most swayed by the prospect of fat boxoffice returns, have of late staked their ultimate pennies on the play of the theatre. Of this description "Ballyhoo," "The Shannons of Broadway," "Burlesque," "The Wild Man of Borneo," "The Barker," and "Broadway" have been the most notable, the last-named two even leaving the secure delights of a Manhattan audience to brave with confident melodrama what is now known throughout the profession as the Boston titter...