Word: butter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BUTTER AND EGG MAN - The vivid financing and the smiles and sorrow that are part of the production of a Broadway play...
...verse while a college girls. He will look at her and believe the college part but wonder the rest. And the one from North Hampton will try to engage him in a minor flirtation which will at least amuse her husband and probably send a poet and a Butter and Egg Man out in search of a drink...
...BUTTER AND EGG MAN - What happens to a play before it is produced, and the absurd antics of the curious folk involved...
...will agree with me that the words extortion, holdups, gouging, etc., which have been frequently used in this connection, are, to put it mildly, as Mark Twain said of the reports of his own death, perhaps a trifle exaggerated. If, to quote an old English proverb: 'Soft words butter no parsnips,' neither are hard words milch cows from which we extract the milk of human kindness...
LESS SERIOUS THE BUTTER AND EGG MAN-A sharp and knowing satire on how people act behind the scenes at almost any theatre...