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Word: nell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward B. Sheldon '08, eminent playwright and author of the "Nigger", "Salvation Nell", "Romance" and other plays will be the new judge in the Belmont Theatre Prize Competition for this year, it was announced yesterday by the 47 Workshop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: E. B. SHELDON TO JUDGE BELMONT PRIZE PLAYS | 2/1/1924 | See Source »

...SWEET NELL OF OLD DRURY - Laurette Taylor enjoying herself in a very old-fashioned melodrama-romance in which ladies wear yard-wide hats and gentlemen lace pants. A clean show about Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jul. 2, 1923 | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

With comedy it's only something less so. Where the dramatist falls ; down the dressmaker rises up. Costumes can make a good play better, or they can make a bad play ; pass for good. Sweet Nell takes gate receipts in good part on its costume. The last act of H. B. Warner's You and I is bolstered with gratuitous ; masquerade. Polly Preferred owes greatly to its costumes. And who can say how much has 18th century satin won of The Rivals and The School for Scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plumes and Satin | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...SWEET NELL or OLD DRURY;?Laurette Taylor enjoying herself in a very old-fashioned melodrama-romance in which ladies wear yard-wide hats and gentlemen lace pants. A clean show about Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Jun. 18, 1923 | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...SWEET NELL OF OLD DRURY?Laurette Taylor enjoying herself in a very old-fashioned melodrama-romance in which ladies wear yard- wide hats and gentlemen lace pants. A clean show about Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Jun. 4, 1923 | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

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