Word: keiths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fields)-"Don't push me, Meyer!" When the pair were at the height of their popularity, 20 years ago. they disagreed, separated. Friends called this a "business suicide." This winter, they have returned to the two-a-day, are playing certain Western towns under the management of Keith's Theatres, Inc. But this winter the whisper is not quite so funny; there is a ghost in its levity. For that whisper belongs to the theatrical days of which Savoyards reminisce with wistful head-shakings, of which Mr. Isman, in a similar manner, writes in this book...
Juggling and singing acts from the Keith vaudeville circuit will entertain the delegates and guests at dinner tonight and an orchestra has been engaged for the evening...
...declared that he was very proud of his profession and the progress that it had made because actors had risen by their own efforts from travelling mountebanks to members of a recognized profession. He attributed a good deal of this success to the efforts of Keith in popularizing good, clean, wholesome amusement...
...most exquisite productions ever hung in one of the Institute's U. S. exhibitions. Young Women, ingratiatingly painted by Leon Droll of Chicago, won for that artist the Potter Palmer prize of $1,000, while one Charles Grafly of Philadelphia was given the last large award, the Keith Spalding $1,000 medal, for his sculpture, Study of a Head of War. Many others were solaced with minor prizes which, though their greatest weight was one of honor, were yet of substance enough to keep coal in studio stoves, tea in studio pots...
...wonders, Wonders no more. We are sent home with disappointment and a happy ending. Miss Fenwick as Simonetta, charming and gracious though she be, is hopelessly miscast. She is too much the Anglo-Saxon, rather than Italian, nor does Raymend Bloomer, who takes the place of Ian Keith as Luigi, succeed altogether in convincing one of his powers as a cavalier...