Word: merton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marx Brothers. These four ingenious gentlemen first sprang into magnificent prominence two years ago with a noisy, nondescript and stunningly hilarious adventure called I'll Say She Is. Whereupon Irving Berlin gathered them unto himself and agreed to write music for their next show; George S. Kaufman (Merton; Beggar on Horseback; The Butter and Egg Man) was summoned to write the book; and producer Sam H. Harris released $100,000 or so into circulation to pay for costumes, settings, subordinates. From this fertile pasture The Cocoanuts grew...
Young Woodley. The return of Glenn Hunter after his long and brilliant occupation in Merton of the Movies is one of the important autumn happenings. He fulfilled in a different and far more serious part the expectations of his followers. He plays a school boy of England and makes the character live and suffer notably...
...which the afternoon rehearsal had just been held, Glenn Hunter, star of "Young Woodley", which opened last. Monday night at the Hollis Theatre in Boston, spoke rapidly and enthusiastically of college, of his own work and plans, but most of all of the new play,--the successor of "Merton...
half score or more years ago George S. Kaufman wrote a musical comedy with Marc Connelly and peddled it about the town without success (it was produced eventually as Be Yourself and ran for several months) ; then Dulcy; To the Ladies; Merton of the Movies; Helen of Troy, New York; The Beggar on Horseback; and Minick. With the exception of the last, which he wrote with Edna Ferber, he has collaborated on these plays with Mr. Connelly. This year they split, Mr. Kaufman's first musical by himself will be The Cocoanuts, for the Marx Brothers, and his first play...
...ditty .entitled, Be My Charm Mama, and I'll Be Your Soda Pop. But alas! there are no such songs. For this production, not a musical comedy, seeks to explore further the vein of Merton of the Movies, The Show Off-to be gracious, tactful, gay- in short, to be charming. The first act-the most amusing first act of the current season-achieves this, but in the second the plot lifts its girlie-girlie face, and ghosts of the unsung ballads interrupt the accomplished small-town gabbing of Maidel Turner, and the adept gaucheries of Drug Clerk Kenneth...