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Manhattan's only free theatre, which a Broadway wisecracker once termed "the flophouse of the drama," came billowing out of the imagination of a frankly stage-struck playwright named Butler Davenport, who looks like Edwin Booth (see cut). Taking over the building in 1915 left Davenport $3.17. But $3.17 floated plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Molière and Butler Davenport, with unpaid casts made up of starry-eyed young amateurs, sad-faced old professionals, milliners' assistants, postmen, stenographers, clerks. Now & then there might be a familiar Broadway name like Mary Shaw in the cast, or future Broadway names...
...Producer Davenport keeps his playhouse going by the sale of a few reserved seats and by passing the hat during intermissions. Most nights, during the final intermission, Davenport steps before the curtain draped in a sheet, harangues the audience for 15 or 20 minutes. The theatre is unqualifiedly his to run. He chooses plays, writes them, directs them. He also stokes the furnace and sweeps the aisles...
...sick room at Rochester, Minn. several weeks ago,* James Roosevelt received Writer Walter Davenport of Collier's to reply through him to Writer Alva Johnston's article "Jimmy Got It" in the Satevepost (TIME, July 4). Last week and this, Collier's published the Roosevelt reply, "I'm Glad You Asked Me," in two installments...
...small boy unaware of the ruination around him. Only in his drawings of Chamberlain does Cartoonist Low seem unreservedly angry, and his campaign against the Prime Minister gives promise of belonging with the great performances of its type, the war of Thomas Nast against Boss Tweed, of Homer Davenport against Mark Hanna...
This first novel was inspired by the music but not by the life of Leon (Bix) Beiderbecke, a Davenport, Ia. boy who played the trumpet in Paul Whiteman's band, became one of the greatest of jazz musicians and died in 1931, leaving devotees of swing music to collect phonographic records of his art as reverently as art collectors gather the works of Old Masters. In Young Man with a Horn, the hero is called Rick Martin, and he is presented as a good-natured, hardworking, colorless individual, an orphan who learns to play the piano...