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Only occasionally does there come a show that is original and yet naturally attractive, that has novelty but not so much of it as to jar. "Rang Tang" at the Tremont Theatre is as close an approximation to such an ideal as has been seen in Boston for a long time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/25/1927 | See Source »

...Feeling pretty good I was this afternoon through," he mused, digging deep into the jar of grease paint on his dressing-table. "Put over some hot ones, good gags, you get me? made them up as I went along you can do that when you get an audience going. Reminds me, when we were playing in "Sunny", Marilyn Miller and I, you know; we played all through the summer of 1925; hot as it was too, rather warm get me? Well one night there was a woman up in the balcony sitting right under the spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jack Donahue Walks About Disguised as Drug Store - Tells of How Heat Gave Effect of Humor With Lady in Gallery | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...habit of turning into a corpse." She meets Calpurnia, Caesar's wife. Calpurnia thanks her "for providing me with such an excellent excuse to exercise freely whatever poor talents I possess." The nature of these talents is reflected in Cleopatra's diary: "Received this morning a jar of preserved roses from Calpurnia. Fed it to my little pet rabbit. . . . Buried my little pet rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cleopatra | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...Tily of Philadelphia, chairman of the National Dry Goods Association, and Lew Hahn, of Manhattan, its managing director. These two reported that Prosperity's fingers had touched the clothing industry throughout the U. S. C Visitors at Paul Smith's climbed a tree, one armed with a jar of jam. They were "bear-hunting," endeavoring to recapture Babe, a bear cub brought there ten days previously by a Detroit cinema man. Finally bruin was coaxed to captivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Sep. 27, 1926 | 9/27/1926 | See Source »

...what publication appeared the advertisement, "Not a laxative -Buy it by the jar-Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

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