Word: doesn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makers, our show was a flop. They just couldn't see it. I like to watch the people who are watching my shows and it is interesting to notice their reactions. Here, in Boston, now, in contrast to Detroit, the audiences seem to understand the show, and though it doesn't call for a brilliant mind to follow out show, we presuppose a certain amount of sophistication, intelligence, and education on the part of the people who come to see and hear our revue...
Senator Bruce: "He is dead and doesn't know...
...There the tenderfoot doesn't step out daintily for breakfast. He has a lean, hungry look on his face after eating a half hour, and wants to know where the rest of the animal is after devouring a couple of pounds of beefsteak...
...first act doesn't prove a great deal. There is one song however, which ought to be given a Pulitzer prize for something or other. Dorothy wilkins, as the opera singer, and John Law take care of it in great shape. It is a splendid burlesque of the thrills of a Galli-Curoi redeal record, turning them into practical giggles and sly little snickers. The lyric fits so whimsically and attractively into these thrills that the song is excellent...
There is one other song, "Lantern of Love". You've probably heard it, but that doesn't matter. By the end of the first act you'll be humming it, whistling it, beating time to it. At the end of the second act you will hardly be able to wait until you reach the lobby to give your own special version of it. And when you go home (the play has threoacts), the left hind wheel of the trolley, which will be flat, will rhythmically impress that tune on your soul, if you have one, for ever and ever...