Word: mille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough to remember the typical 1920 manufacturing plant -and how it looked "like a shoe-box with a saltcellar in front of it?" There was a great long brick mill (the plant) standing behind a very small management building (the office...
...Mill (music by Victor Herbert; book & lyrics by Henry Blossom; produced by Paula Stone & Hunt Stromberg Jr.) has never before been revived on Broadway since it first nourished there -starring Montgomery & Stone-in 1906. There was no overpowering reason for reviving it now. The Victor Herbert music is nice but hardly notable. The book, jokes and horseplay are not only antiquated for 1945 but were probably no better than average for 1906. Yet this production has the disarming trait of not trying to bridge the years. It makes no effort to scrape any of the red mildew...
Bustin' out all over with operetta romances and sub-romances, misunderstandings, impersonations and sundry other Dutch-village doings, The Red Mill utterly eludes summarizing. Dorothy Stone is still light on her feet. In the main comedy roles, Michael O'Shea and Eddie Foy Jr. save some of the long, dusty stretches between songs. The songs themselves-Whistle It, In Old New York, Because You're You, Isle of Our Dreams, Every Day Is Ladies' Day With Me-are pleasant both as melodies and memories. The Red Mill is far from a full evening's entertainment...
...parade comes first. Starting from the Eliot-Kirkland Quadrangle at 7 o'clock, the band will march down Mill Street, up Plympton, then down Mt. Auburn to Holyoke, then on to the Athletic Building, picking up supporters from all the Houses along the route...
They had plenty of reasons for their opinions. Some of them: 1) production of worsted cloth and the tailoring of garments is crippled by a lack of labor (New England woolen mills need at least 15,000 more workers); 2) worsteds, unfrozen in August, will not reach the civilian consumer until early spring 1946; 3) textile mill machinery is wearing out, needs replacing...