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...Christmas Tale" by David Garrick may also be seen. This is a first edition and is written to be played in the Theater-royal in Drury-Lane. There are several pages of water color illustrations by Randolph Caldecotte in the same case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS and CRITIQUES | 12/20/1929 | See Source »

Hello, Daddy! Ever since Betty Starbuck was seen partaking in the frivolities of the Garrick Gaieties, there have been those who regarded her as among the most pleasing of sarcastic heroines; yet she never received her due. She does not receive it now, in Hello Daddy!, though with Billy Taylor and Lew Fields, the publicized star of the show, she does all kinds of things that are engaging. Lew Fields produced the piece; his son, Herbert (Connecticut Yankee) Fields, wrote the book; his daughter, Dorothy (Blackbirds) Fields, wrote the lyrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 7, 1929 | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...Englishman, the American and the girl, the three dumb Japs, squealing laughter from tongueless mouths, have their own revenge. This is the last scene and is the most thrilling in a season which has tried very hard to provide thrills. Edward G. Robinson (Mr. Crispin) and his Garrick Players did well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 19, 1928 | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...Chicago, even the ubiquitous art of stumping has a peculiar technique. For example, Anton J. Cermak, wet Democratic nominee for U. S. Senator, got up on the stage of the Garrick Theatre and produced a photostatic copy of a hospital chart, showing that his Republican opponent, Otis F. Glenn, had received treatment for delirium tremens in 1912. Then Mr. Cermak cried: "I have affidavits here that this man [Glenn], accompanied by Prohibition agents, visits stills and breweries, running illegally, and drinks so much that they have to carry him from there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sidewalks of Chicago | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

When Crummies Played. This is the first of six plays, each to run four weeks, which will be produced by the Garrick Players during the season. This particular piece, first presented at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, by Sir Nigel Playfair, concerns the presentation by Mr. Vincent Crummies' Players, of a play which portrayed the temptations and disaster of a young apprentice in the City. A nice, tweedy audience enjoyed the "satirical picture of the players, adapted from [an episode in] Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

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