Word: beggars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beggar on Horseback recently returned for a short run in Manhattan after a remarkably successful road tour. In my opinion, it is the most important work of George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly. It is filled with Mr. Connelly's curious fantasy and delicate humor?the same that promises to be in evidence when his new play opens in the autumn, that was notably apparent in the small sketch he recently wrote and acted in for The Dutch Treat Club Show, annual performance of that jour- nalists' and artists' society...
...methods, of small-town family life, is ready for you if you are suffering from the disease. If, on the other hand, you are one of the sophisticates who shrug a shoulder at such things, you will probably find the play as effective a satire as "Main Street" or 'Beggar on Horseback." The only flaw in our enjoyment as such, was our horrid suspicion that Mr. Frank Craven wrote the play more for the enjoyment of the large crowd that so obviously did enjoy it, than for any purpose of poking fun at the way we moderns live our lives...
...noted, is a co-author of Mrs. Partridge Presents. A good play on one stage and a magnificent performance on another is a combination which few but her husband can match. He is Mr. Deems Taylor, who writes able music criticisms, entertaining music. (He composed the music of The Beggar on Horseback...
...BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK?The return of a curiously contrived satirical comedy that laughs at big business, art and social climbing...
...Theatregoers have offered all members of the University interested in affairs of the theatre a charter membership in the club which will be organized at 3.05 this afternoon in Harvard 1. The speakers are Roland Young, star in "Beggar on Horseback", who will speak on "Audiences", and Wallace Eddinger, leading man in "Spin-Drift", who will discuss the annual scholarship which he is sponsoring for Harvard's most promising actor...