Word: levelizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better publicity than full page advertisements in every newspaper in New York. "The Drag", which is advertised as "the male captive" was allowed to run only two days in Bridgeport. From all accounts it contains little else but wise cracks on homo-sexuality, and is hardly on a higher level than the folk-literature in certain public places. But these two performances have made "The Drag" as famous as "Broadway", for instance, which has played to packed houses for three months. James Timoney, part owner, is seriously considering putting the play in Madison Square Garden--and he could probably draw...
...magazines, and the "art" magazines reek with it. The manager of "The Drag" says he would show the play in a church, and asks censors to point out exactly what is wrong. He is unanswerable. It is no more possible to say that "The Captive" is on a higher level than "Sex" merely because it is in good taste, than to say that "The Boston Telegraph" is on a higher level than "The New York World" because "The Telegraph" considers its columns too chaste to contain news of the "Peaches" Browning's marital adventures...
...lecture hall is located below the street level. Upon entering, the student is dazzled by a magnificence unfamiliar to habitures of Sever and Harvard Halls. The room has the general design of a motion picture theatre, with sloping tiers of seats, each one equipped with a new device for supporting notebooks, and for ventilating the immediate neighborhood...
...seeker after romance immediately went to third section to the right of the mantel and began his search on the shelf at the level of his eyes...
...national Theatre to be erected in Washington there is a vaulted lobby at the end of which is a grand stairway leading to the promenade on each side at the First Balcony level...