Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Above is a room in a country house decorated to suggest an old sidewalk bar. The walls in scenes of Broadway in 1860 were painted by Louis Bouche...
Gambling is a production in his best Broadway manner, possessed of a sharp, exciting first act, a specious but persuasive denouement and a cast that includes also Mary Phillips as Mazie...
Lown v. Vallee. One Bert Lown, jazz orchestra manager, sued Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, idolized radio love-singer, for breaking a 50-50 partnership Lown says they had. Lown said he started Vallee on Broadway ,and "trained him to put a certain sob-like tone in his voice which . . . has proved one of the main sources of his present singing popularity." Replied Sobber Vallee: "The suit is too preposterous to discuss...
...romantic details: the side overlooking Central Park will consist of a 30-story, 1,200-room apartment hotel to be operated by "one of the most famous hostelries of Paris." The frontage on Broadway will consist of a 65-story office building. The first three floors of the latter will be occupied by stores and showrooms of French shops and industries...
Fred Stone, still recuperating from his airplane crash of last August, visited the Hollywood ranch of his good friend and theatrical understudy, Funnyman Will Rogers. To show his physical fitness he rode a bicycle, danced a jig, told watching reporters that in November he would return to Broadway for a new show, Ripples. Playing with him in her first appearance will be Paula Stone, his 17-year-old daughter. Dorothy Stone, his 19-year-old, hurried to Manhattan last week to replace Ruby Keeler Jolson, ill, in Show Girl (TIME...