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...Fenway--"The Pony Express", continuous: The glorious days of the great West before it became inhabited by big butter-and-egg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMA THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER MYSTERY | 10/21/1925 | See Source »

George H. Babbitt, butter-and-egg man of Tiffin, Ohio, and cousin to the prominent realtor about whom Mr. Sinclair Lewis wrote a book, comes to Manhattan for the Fodder Products Convention. With him comes Mrs. Babbitt and all the little Babbitts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Cost Plus | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

...Babbitt wants to go to the theatre, particularly through those long evenings when Mr. Babbitt is at butter-and-egg meetings. Therefore she scans curiously the advertisements, discovers critical excerpts culled by the press agents designed to prove that every production in town contains superlative entertainment. She gives up and consults the hotel elevator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Cost Plus | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

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