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Word: playgoers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...store organization which is overtaking the movies nowadays is that if you miss a picture at one theater it is almost certain to turn up sooner or later at another. At the Central Square this week are two such attractions. "The Virginian," which has been reviewed before in the Playgoer columns, and "Honky Tonk...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/3/1929 | See Source »

...playing an infallible system which calls for sprigs of vaudeville and bouquets of decoration, find it profitable to keep at least two musical shows going at once. No sooner had their Pleasure Bound closed than they prepared Broadway Nights to companion their A Night in Venice. If a blindfolded playgoer were ushered into one, then permitted to look, he might easily mistake it for the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...figures appearing in stained glass colors, this 32-year-old idyll by Stephen Phillips may have a place in dramatic history. However, its lack of semblance to life makes its revival now by so fine an actress as Jane Cowl a little difficult to understand. To interest the modern playgoer in the doom of these two familiar poetic figures, a little more of Dante's fire is needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...boards and bows tonight under the appropriate title of "Fiesta." There is no reason to doubt that it will measure up to the standard set by previous productions of the club. The lines and settings are encouraging to the peculiar zest of amateur acting, and the oldest living playgoer cannot remember when a drama by native talent had no honor in its own country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MERRY CHRISTMAS | 12/12/1928 | See Source »

...enjoyed most was his interview with Jane Cowl I think the article that most amused me was the one called "Africa a Tale of the Rhinoceros" or perhaps it was a toss up between it and a burlesque of the Burton Holmes Lectures that so thrilled the CRIMSON playgoer not long age. I am going to have the drawing "After You, Magellan framed and hung in my office. We will not go into more detail, but the reader turning from page to page will be delighted with the excellence of the material as well as the care that has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around World Number Triumph--Zenith Reached in Lampoon Humor | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

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