Word: pinchbeck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Room Service (by John Murray & Allen Boretz; George Abbott, producer) does for shoestring theatrical producing what Producer Abbott's Boy Meets Girl did for Hollywood and his Three Men On A Horse did for horse racing. It pumps its subject full of fun in veterinary doses. Than this pinchbeck legend of Longacre Square, there is no funnier show in town...
Author Williams is satisfactorily horrifying as the murderous bellhop, a creepy, insinuating, pinchbeck manic-depressive. Psychological shock-line comes when Danny is about to be led away in handcuffs. Appraising himself in the mirror, he observes: "This is the real thing...
...Theatre. In July 1932 the old grandee died in Hollywood. Last summer Broadway's two great salvage men, Lee and J. J. Shubert, contracted for the great name "Ziegfeld Follies" from Billie Burke Ziegfeld. They immediately set about giving their name a show. Knowing the Shuberts' famed pinchbeck failings, Mrs. Ziegfeld began by passing on director, cast, sets and costumes. Since she was acting in Hollywood in Universal's Only Yesterday, names and sketches were submitted to her by mail, telephone and telegraph. After a false start on the road and the addition of $50,000 worth...
...They slipped me at least a million dollars worth of free newspaper advertising." In 1904 he went into partnership with Sam Harris. They married the Nolan sisters of Boston, oldtime musicomedy favorites. They built houses next to each other at Great Neck, L. I. From then on the pinchbeck little kingdom which begins at Manhattan's Columbus Circle and ends at Herald Square was the private domain of George M. Cohan. He did things his own way. He has never felt at home in The Players Club on quiet Gramercy Square, but when the Friars made him a member...
Members of New York's Tammany Hall may or may not be a burden to the city; they seem a positive jinx to the Italian Line. With pinchbeck little James John Walker aboard, the brand-new 51,000-ton, 28-knot Rex broke down at Gibraltar, reached Manhattan three days late. The slightly smaller, equally fast and ornate Conte di Savoia left Naples on her maiden voyage fortnight ago with New York's Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney as passenger...