Word: boatful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked about the cost of his various productions, Ziegfeld said that his five shows, "The Follies," "Rosalie," "Show Boat," "Rio Rita," and "The Three Musketeers" cost over $2,200,000 to put on, and that the weekly expense is over...
Songs and slips on the banana peel are well managed in: Manhattan Mary, Show Boat, A Connecticut Yankee, Hit the Deck, Good News, Funny Face...
...Show Boat. Edna Ferber fashioned for herself one of the happiest New Years in New York. In the same week a play of hers (The Royal Family) started what seemed to be her first great success in the theatre, and Florenz Ziegfeld's musical comedy made from her novel established itself magnificently as the best of its kind in town. She did not write the songs and jokes, but the librettist held closely to her basic story. The floating theatre on the Mississippi made a perfect background; Negro singers helped the melodies. These tunes were by Jerome David Kern...
Freshmen will satisfy the physical education requirement by skating on the Charles, if they report to the monitors, who will be on the Newell Boat House Float, it was announced by D. J. Kelly, assistant director of physical education, yesterday...
...Boylston and Tremont streets on a windy day, an interesting and odiferous market section, an Irish aristocracy which came over on the Mayflower, an English aristocracy which came over so long ago that it has forgotten the exact era, a charmingly decrepit business district, and good train and boat connections elsewhere. There are other assets but these save the city from utter blacklisting...