Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hotel Ambassador, (51st and Park Ave.) features Vincent Lopez in the new Trianon Room, and a fine cuisine...
Happily donning his gladdest rags and casting aside the cultured pall of Park Square, the Playgoer moves upon Times Square. The New York boards are teeming with activity, and there are no many worthy productions that the be-Bostoned conductor of this column is all in a dither with an embarrassment of riches to recommend to his Princeton-bound public. With a dash of courage let's have at this long list of theatrical diversions...
Quite unclassifiable is Billy Rose's "Jumbo," which opens Saturday night and which Mr. Rose candidly confesses will probably run forever. And then there is always Columbus Circle, which presents some of the most impassioned and diversified soap box oratory west of Hyde Park. For Saturday matinee we recommend the pageant at the Palmer stadium, featuring the Harvard band...
...John Holm and George Abbott what with companies romping through it from London to Australia. Boston is the latest of the theatrical nooks and crannies to be discovered by producer Alex Yokel and since the Monday opening at the Plymouth great sounds of merriment have been rolling out into Park Square...
...diverted from his routine that he goes not to the office but forthwith to a very low pub where he falls in with a group of down-at-the-heels race track touts. It has been Erwin's harmless amusement as he daily rides the Ozone Park bus to dope out the day's horse races and figure up his paper profits. He shows the boys his predictions for the races and, desperately they lay their last "fin" as he indicates. His horse comes through and so do all his other prognostications for the day. The "boys" adopt Erwin...