Word: goer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rules of a man-made social code." She has a splendid opportunity to knock the present social system and Men with a capital M for a row of rhetorical rockets. All of which, with subsidiary complications, well played by a competent cast, should furnish sufficient entertainment for the theatre goer who prefers to see his drama proceed along fairly well-worn lines...
...term "amateur" suggests to most men the picture of an athlete giving "all he has in him" to help his college team, while that of "professional" connotes salaries, and the "selling" of players. But, until recently, the term "amateur the atricals" has been one to discourage the average theatre-goer...
...play less intelligible to us than to them. Mr. Hampden made an ingenious experiment when he revived it. Surely he did so not because he wanted it to be preserved as a sample of ancestral art, but because he thought it was still good entertainment for the regular theatre-goer. He was right--but the regular theatre-goer hasn't waked up yet. "The Beggar's Opera" was an identical experiment, but in that case the theatre-goer did wake up. Perhaps it was the press-agent...
...French Canadian girl, and that David Belasco, in his scenery and scenic effects, had left nothing to the imagination. Take away the charm of Lenore Uirich's acting and the perfection of the stage settings, and you are hard put to it to find a substitute. If the theatre-goer is sensible enough not to expect at the St. James the exquisiteness of acting and of-scenery that one finds in a Belasco production, he will see that the Boston Stock Company is to be congratulated on its latest offering...
...bill this week at the a Majestic surpasses its usual standard. It is seldom that the theatre-goer has the opportunity to enjoy so many first-class vaudeville acts in one evening. Cecil Lean and Cleo Mayfield entertained with several original lyrics, among which was, "when a Wife Gets Fat". Cecil Lean's caricature of a baseball fan was extremely good and should be made the leading part of the act. Sam Hearn, the fiddling politician, gave a little speech dealing more or less with politics, but at any rate keeping every one in a happy frame of mind with...