Word: dad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...David's Dad.-Somehow the report got around that this play was the Abie's Irish Rose of Germany and people assembled to malign the effort mentally and laugh themselves sick on the side. Unhappily, the things that aroused hilarity in Germany did not sound so funny in the U. S. The translation sounded like a literal rendering of German grammar exercises by one of the least intelligent members of the class. The plot bestirs itself about a haughty family who think their daughter could have done a lot better than marry that young doctor. The young doctor...
...time to halt the family weakness for defaulting. This time she'll be firm and signal for the police. Her son's sweetheart, whose estate the son has largely defrauded, suddenly decides that jail is none too good for him. (He has just reminded her that her dad killed himself because of his dad, and she resents it.) On the verge of his trial, the son threatens to jump his bail, and the mother kills herself, with some notion of thus straightening out everything. She leaves a trust fund to her son to make restitution. Playwright, Abby Merchant...
John D. Rockefeller: "The Chicago Daily Tribune ran the headline: MRS. MAX OSER TO MAKE JOHN D. GREAT-GRAN'DAD. The news came from Lake Neuchatel, Switzer land, where Mathilde McCormick Oser, my granddaughter, and her husband, a Swiss riding master, have a chateau. The interesting family event is expected soon after Christmas...
...whatever the final decision on this nerve-racking matter, human nature will probably remain the same. Should the graduates turn out to be the cleverer, "Ask Dad" is a rather comforting motto at times. Should the Freshmen more than hold their ground, it will only confirm the opinion that education is not all it's cracked...
...other acts which although some what shopworn, drew much applause are the sketch of Ida May Chadwick and her "dad", in which Miss Chadwick as "Tillie" does some clever clog dancing and the act of Demurest and Collins comedians and instrumentalists. The sluging of Miss Gusce Nelson and the acts of W. F. Pollard comedy juggler and of Van Cleve in "Pete and His Gal" complete the bill...