Word: barroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary Barthelemess, in the part of the maid, and William Mendrek, whose role is that of an iceman. Although overdone, their characterizations ring true and furnish many laughs. Allan Tower, who plays the part of the Big Bad Businessman, has the curious aura of "Ten Nights in a Barroom" about him and the end of the play finds you surprised that he has produced neither a long black mustache, or whip...
Sirs: TIME, April 13, arrived in the mails today, and the reference to the production of Ten Nights in a Barroom at Camps Lee and Eustis has been read with great interest by the members of the Honolulu Community Theater who have been touring the camps on Oahu with the same melodramatic masterpiece ever since the war started. However, we have come to the conclusion that the experiences of this rival company must be pretty small potatoes compared with ours...
Spoilers is renowned for its long, concluding brawl between villain and hero. The current version (Wayne v. Scott) is a beaut. It begins in Cherry's overstuffed quarters on the saloon's second floor, ranges round the balcony, down to the barroom, smashing everything in sight, continues out through the front window into the street. When it is finally over, Sourdough Harry Carey pulls the hero together and chides: "That's enough now; come...
...always get, all too often get routine stuff they don't want. But in Virginia the Richmond Defense Service Unit of OCD has lately struck gold in an abandoned mine. Again & again at Camp Lee and Fort Eustis, that venerable grog-flogger. Ten Nights in a Barroom, has left the boys looping...
...amassed old books, rifles, farm tools, wagons, toys, wax fruit, chamber pots. They salvaged the whole floor of a barn because members of an early German-American sect had knelt on its boards to pray. When a neighboring hotel was torn down, Henner and George Landis bought its whole barroom. But Henner and George Landis were not antique dealers, never sold so much as a darning needle. They just collected things as a hobby...