Word: jitney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Remarkable for his non-silken turn of mind is Bushnell Cheney (son of Horace B.), who helped launch the Jitney Players in 1923 and who remains the power behind the scenes. Last week his troupe concluded a two weeks' stand at the Cherry Lane Playhouse in Manhattan's Greenwich Village...
...Jitney Players. If you spend your summers in New England you may possibly have seen a troupe of mummers trundle into town of a hot summer's night, in motor trucks, unpack their scenery and their costumes and set up a show shop on a tennis court or a golf course. The Jitney Players have been touring in that fashion for six years...
Members of the University will be admitted at a reduced price of $.50 to the presentation of "A" Trip to Scarborough", a satiric comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, which will be presented as the only Boston performance of the Jitney Players in the ballroom of the Hotel Statler at 8.15 o'clock tonight...
...Trip to Scarborough", a satiric comedy by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the eighteenth century playwright, which will be the only performance in Boston by the Jitney Players, Incorporated, will be presented in the ballroom of the Hotel Statler on January...
...Jitney Players have toured the country during the last six summers with a stage constructed on their truck, giving performances at various summer resorts...