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...Leaves. A vagrant project, of the type that annually prowls unheralded into a vacant theatre during the Lenten season of depression and low rentals, appeared under this curious cognomen. It told how women will do anything for clothes. Two in particular had only a paltry $40,000 income and longed to spend it all on evening wraps. They both got into difficulties, gave their husbands opportunity for angry exit. It was one of those high-society plays, written (by Harry Chapman Ford) in the best manner of burlesque and acted even beyond that inexpensive level. There have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Apr. 6, 1925 | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

...Coolidge opened a series of Lenten musicals in the East Room. Rachmaninoff was the first attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Mar. 24, 1924 | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

Cardinal Logue, Primate of Ireland, in his Lenten pastoral, threatened to refuse holy communion to women not modestly dressed. "The tradition that Irish women are modest must be maintained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecclesiastical Affairs: Mar. 10, 1924 | 3/10/1924 | See Source »

Channing Pollock has already received $300,000 royalties from the various companies playing his popular hit, The Fool, which was advertised as " the Lenten play." By the time all the road companies have completed their barnstorming he expects to have made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Notes, Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

Royalties derived from "the Lenten play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Apr. 21, 1923 | 4/21/1923 | See Source »

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