Word: jitneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a rumble of luggage and a rattle of loose mud-guards, the Jitney Players, a peripatetic troupe composed largely of Harvard and Yale men, have descended upon New England. Bearing the masks of drama, echoing the gallantries of Provence, the college performers have invaded and captured the summer colonies of the East...
...broad highway, the organization conceived by Bushnell Cheney, Yale '21, and R. S. Andrich '25, a former president of the Harvard Dramatic Club, has won a permanent place in the theatrical world. Eight principals of the troupe have been Harvard men. Sixteen players in all tour with the Jitney company; seven of them are professional actresses...
...Adirondacks, laden with photographs and sheets of statistics, to report what progress the emperor of the highways had made in his conquest of the air. First of all, Edsel Ford explained the ship† that is to be standardized and produced, en masse, at Detroit. No air "jitney," it is a large ship, designed for commercial uses. It is an all-metal monoplane with three Wright-Whirlwind motors. It can carry a ton of freight, operating at a cost of 13.8 cents a mile. Its cruising radius is 2,500 miles. New, it costs the purchaser...
...only has he directed a number of amateur companies, but during the summers of 1924 and 1925 he was manager of the Jitney Players. He is at present business manager of the American Laboratory Theatre...
Although Bushnell Cheney, a Yale man, is owner and Director in whose hands the project has taken shape, many Harvard men, members of the Dramatic Club and, most of them, affiliated with the late 47 Workshop, have been intimately connected with the Jitney Players. Last summer there were seven graduates and undergraduates of the University in the company, with three Yale...