Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Their original intention was merely to use the old playhouse for their own amusement. They gathered together a company best described as semiprofessional and last Labor Day threw the doors open for their first production, a revival of The Barker, a Broadway hit. not caring much whether they even paid expenses. They didn't. Nor did they care. They kept on, producing Mr. Morley's own play, Pleased to Meet You, reviving Broadway and The Old Soak, going into red ink but having a very pleasant time...
Queen of the Night Clubs (Warner). Although Broadway night clubs have served as a locale for more pictures than any other background except the western plains, there has not been one yet in which the patrons neglected to throw confetti or paper streamers, or to rise and cheer when the hostess, with a roll of drums, tripped in. Even now when Texas Guinan, perched on a chair-back with her suckers around her, invokes an atmosphere indisputably authentic, the public is not allowed to forget that her grown son, whom she has not seen for years, will presently turn...
...shouting directions to the hero came back into vogue with the revival of After Dark a few months ago, at Christopher Morley's Theatre in Hoboken (see above). This is another by the author of After Dark. Dragged from its pre-war (Civil) dust and presented on Broadway, its thunderous plot is played "straight" by a capable cast. For those who can get enjoyment out of making fun of abandoned sentimentalities, it provides a pleasant evening...
Trois Jeunes Filles Nues. French musical comedy is seldom written home about. Tourists are either ashamed about it, or don't understand it, or spend their time in the Louvre. One hardly would have expected to see a French revue imported to Broadway and presented in its native tongue with any degree of success. However, it has now been done and the result is far from discouraging. A company managed by J.A. Gauvin began a New York engagement last week with a piece entitled Trois Jeunes Filles Nues, which, for the sake of the censor, was translated as "Three...
Indiscretion. There has not been anything quite like this one on Broadway since the last horsecar. Myron C. Fagan, who wrote it, either is kidding the public or he is kidding himself. If he meant it seriously, it's terrible. If he dashed it off with his tongue in his cheek it's very good. There hasn't been so much plot in one place since East Lynne. It all begins in Venice with a clandestine love affair. Then comes the villain to take the hero back to his dying father. Eighteen years and a good deal...