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...company, known as the "Jitney Players", was organized last summer by Mr. Bushnell Cheney, who graduated from Yale in 1921, and completed a most successful tour-throughout New England. This year the company will repeat its trip under his direction. The cast, consisting almost entirely of professional actors and actresses, will be coached by Mr. Samuel Merwin, the celebrated play-wright. Among the Dramatic Club members who will join the company are R. C. Burrell '24, former president of the Club, who is to be the stage manager, and D. W. Hallett '24, who will act as his assistant...
...Most of my popular slang phrases and sayings originated in San Francisco. The once over, ' 23,' run out powder, hire a hall, jitney, flivver, Larry turn the crank, get your goat, where d'ye get that stuff, and hundreds of others came from there...
There has been these last few months a barely discernible turn of the tide. Romeyne Park Benjamin, The Jitney Players (mostly college graduates), Oliver Harriman (Princeton) have cast their lots with the actors. Possibly none of them will succeed John Barrymore; yet their example in forcing the national stage door against the dead weight of convention is invaluable. Young men of less position but with more temperament may be aroused to follow their inclinations through the door thus opened...
...curious outgrowth of the strolling player idea has cropped up in the Ford Truck tour of New England by the Jitney Players. Headed by Bushnell Cheney, youthful Yale graduate, and his wife, Alice Keating, the group will present Creatures of Impulse, by W. S. Gilbert, and James Branch Cabell's The Jewel Merchants to New England communities throughout the summer. Their stage consists of automatic contrivances built on the body of two Ford trucks. Their season opened at Madison, Conn., July...
...Lecture on "The Jitney Problem," in Lawrence 12. Mr. L. R. Nash...