Word: mr
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a true American love of spectacles, the participants in the stock market have entered the realm of the stimulati, and they have gone about it in such a way that Mr. Ziegfeld's male interludes are conspicuously unassuming in comparison. The bears rush in to start the ball rolling, and the debacle begins. One hundred million dollars are rushed to the scene and big business sits back to reassure the public that all is well. The next day, a record sale of sixteen million shares is recorded, and the journalists throw up their hands and begin to put their...
...taste. The manuscript might well have been a composite of the theater's most familiar scenes, for there is scarcely a situation that has not become painfully hackneyed through years of repetition; and their quality is not improved by the latest transmission. With such material the struggles of Mr. Faversham and, his supporting company to infuse life into the creation never achieve more than a few brief moments of success...
Under such conditions, the best of acting is liable to be submerged. Yet Mr. Faversham succeeds in injecting a considerable amount of gracious humor into his role, and Ara Gerald, although her part was exceptionally maltreated by the playwrights, is both attractive and capable. Miss Atherton plays the conventional caricature of an English governess...
...Mr. Coward will open "Bitter-Sweet" in New York City the first week of November. Then he will travel around the world until next May when he expects to return to New York to play in a new production...
...very common request comes from aunts and uncles of boys who they think just may be in Harvard, and if so, where do they live; all this expanded into a story telling much life history!" Just then the telephone rang and Mr. Dahlquist was sent searching through the files for the telephone number of some much sought-for Freshman