Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time for a sketch?"Grand Hotel" by Gladys Glad's smart husband Mark Hellinger, a fairly disorderly sequence with Harry Richman as Baron Al Capone of Chicago, sputteringly Semitic Jack Pearl as Cecil B. Goldwarner of Hollywood, Milton LeRoy as Alphonso Smith, late King of Gibraltar, and deep curved Helen Morgan as Polly Adlervitch, the Russian danseuse who visits all their rooms in a business-like way, leaving green carnations as receipts...
...such, are acrimonious, sedentary, conceited, unhappy, mercenary, preoccupied and futile. The better bridge players they may be, the more disagreeable they can become and the truth of this contention was needlessly demonstrated again last week in a bitter controversy between foremost U. S. authorities on Contract Bridge-Sidney Lenz, Milton C. Work, R. R. Richards, E. V. Shepard, Walter F. Wyman, and Ely Culbertson...
Ostensibly to allay their uncertainty was formed last week a new organization, Bridge Headquarters, Inc. in which Sidney Lenz, Wilbur Whitehead, Milton Work and other experts planned to sacrifice their individual systems to form a universal bidding system for everyone to use. The Bridge Headquarters v. Culbertson controversy became a major bridge issue last week when five experts resigned from the Culbertson edited Bridge World to join the new organization...
...Municipal Theatre Association of St. Louis opened its 13th season three weeks ago. Once devoted mainly to light opera- Gilbert & Sullivan, Johann Strauss, Franz Lehar et al.-it has acquired a revolving stage, a number of onetime Shubert musical comedy singers, and last year a Shubert director, Milton I., nephew of Producers Lee & Jake (TIME, June 9. 1930). Its productions are now more in the Broadway manner than in that of the Savoy or the Strauss-Theater (see below). In the second week came 60,000 (a record) to Forest Park to the open air amphitheatre, to see The Street...
Nobody knows how far the long arm of he Brothers Shubert reaches in show business. They have affiliations throughout the country, from New York where hey put on more shows than any other producer, through St. Louis where Nephew Milton Shubert is production manager of he Municipal Theatre, to Hollywood where they have potent friends; also eastward into Europe. Last week Brothers Lee & Jake sold out their interest in London's Associated Theatre Properties Inc. (operators of five important West End playhouses: the Apollo, Adelphi, Shaftesbury, Gaiety, His Majesty's) for a reputed price...