Word: gazer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...election night at the Majestic when "The Star Gazer" had its premiere. At 9.40 p. m., with two acts heard from, it looked like a winner, and the box office conceded success. But late returns from the third act stopped the landslide, reduced the margin of victory, and may even necessitate a recount to put the show in the running...
...profligacy. There were yards of silks and satins for those costumes of 1830, and what the Messrs. Shubert saved in decollete dressing they had to spend in hoop skirts. The free hand that equips Winter Garden shows did the pouring when money was put in to "The Star Gazer." In the tea scene of the second act, for instance, real sugar was used...
John T. Murray, the star gazer, didn't over-play, in spite of a temptation. And the really lively role of the show was that of John Harwood. He was the green grocer last year in "Getting Married," and the shift from Shavianism to Shubertism did not curb his artfulness. If the librettist, Cosmo Hamilton, will work as hard at revision as Harwood did at the premiere, "The Star Gazer" may discover an orbit for itself on Broadway...
...Empire Producing Corporation, of New York City. It is a farcical comedy in three acts, entitled "In For the Night." The author was president of the Dramatic Club in 1911 and also wrote the book and Lyrics of the Hasty Pudding production that year, which was "The Crystal Gazer...
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye"; and, except advertisements and new subjects for Advocate Prize Essays, it serves up nothing without an infusion of football--as if it would restore temperance by surfeiting, like a Keeley cure. It might well spare us "Statistics of Harvard Players." When a man plays football through one Freshman season and three Varsity seasons, we read his condensed biography seven times in the CRIMSON and become so accustomed to it that we do not need it in the Advocate. If the Advocate's example is followed by the Monthly, the Illustrated Magazine, the Lampoon...