Word: grisman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offices of four Manhattan theatres controlled by Sam H. Grisman -the Forrest (Tobacco Road), the Belasco (Golden Boy), the Hudson (Whiteoaks), the Windsor (The Two Bouquets, opening May 31)- made U. S. theatrical history this week when they started selling tickets, not only for their own shows, but for the other three as well. The system, new to the U. S., has worked out well in Europe...
Tortilla Flat (adapted by Jack Kirkland; produced by Jack Kirkland & Sam H. Grisman). Critics, like partridges, should never be shot sitting. That this sportsmanlike principle still lingers on Broadway was evidenced last week...
...overcoat. Henry Hull, then playing the part of filthy Jeeter Lester, found he could begin to pay the expenses of his Old Lyme, Conn, estate. After the first year's run, profits were $84,000. When Tobacco Road's second birthday rolled around, Producers Sam Grisman, Jack Kirkland and Anthony Brown threw caution to the winds, blew in $10.50 for new costumes for all the players...
Forbidden Melody (book & lyrics by Otto Harbach; music by Sigmund Romberg; Kirkland & Grisman, producers) is a spavined specimen of that old theatrical wheelhorse, the operetta. Laid in a complicated Balkan kingdom, it tries to be sentimental, succeeds only in being arch. It contains a surprise, Comedienne Ruth Weston singing. Carl Brisson, a large, broad-faced Dane who was once a pugilist, accomplishes both song and dance, has such fidgety legs that he seems to be dancing even when he is not supposed to. Brightest spots are the singing of such amiable Romberg tunes as "No Use Pretending" and "Blame...
Bright Honor (by Henry R. Misrock; Jack Kirkland & Sam H. Grisman, producers) is another play about a boys' military school. This one, depicting a school called Newtown Military Academy, better administered and more sleekly appointed than Stone Ridge (see above), presents detailed cross-sections from the daily life of its tin-pot Napoleons and apprentice Casanovas. A kindly teacher of English who considers Browning sonnets more important than Browning machine guns is tormented by the boys until he loses his job, to the detriment of his love life. Bright Honor points out that education at Newtown is smothered under...