Word: papavert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Prohibition agents swooped down upon it in a wellpublicized, spectacular raid. "What a pity!" he lamented. "We had . . . the nicest people . . . 16 cooks. . . . It was not like a club; it was like a home. . . . My heart broke." The day previous he had withdrawn his play, Papavert, from Broadway. Refurbished, renamed Mr. Papavert to preclude confusion with Freudian categories, it was later reopened. After eleven per formances the play, though very funny in France, closed with a loss of $35,000. On the day it closed, he intrepidly opened his second speakeasy venture, ''Joe Zelli...
...Papavert. Joe Zelli is the name of a man who went to France after serving in the Italian Army, stayed in Paris to run a night club and became a byword for junketing college boys. Last autumn he closed up shop on depression-stricken Montmartre, came to Manhattan to run a saloon for Racketeer Owney Madden. Mr. Papavert is the translated version of a play which Mr. Zelli presented in Paris. It was originally of Teutonic extraction...
...Papavert is the name of a mellow old bookbinder who suddenly finds himself in jail. Released by Communists, he becomes for them a symbol of the oppressed workingman. But Mr. Papavert does not like to be a symbol, at one point tries to commit suicide. The whole affair woefully tries for satirical effect, elements of which must have been lost long ago with constant revision. The play was recalled after two performances last month. At that time it was called Papavert. Its present title resulted from a general impression that papaversion was a mental disease...
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