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Word: playgoers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shuberts' play is not so well mounted. The fanciful story of two lovers who, parted as children, meet only in their dreams in later life and are only wholly reunited in death, is one which ; goes better with music nowadays than without. But the Shuberts will give many a playgoer his fill of sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...reviews of "Dishonored", the Marlene Dietrich picture now playing in Boston, for the CRIMSON playgoer contest must be handed in at the CRIMSON building by 6 o'clock tonight. First prize is ten dollars while the next ten men will receive a pair of tickets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEWS OF "DISHONORED" MUST BE HANDED IN TODAY | 4/7/1931 | See Source »

...Many a Manhattan playgoer was reminded by the Bischoff girl's suicide of the plot of Five Star Final, the year's newspaper melodrama on Broadway. In that play, written in anger and bitterness by Louis Weitzenkorn (onetime managing editor of Macfadden's Evening Graphic), the managing editor of a New York tabloid undertakes to find out what has become of a famed courtesan of 20 years back, who had been acquitted of murder. The newshawks find her respectably married. Their screeching story breaks on the wedding day of the woman's daughter. Grief-stricken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Five Star Final | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Events in the Boston Theatre--The CRIMSON Playgoer. Views and interviews of current stage stars and attractions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Features of Tomorrow's 16-Page Issue of Crimson | 10/17/1930 | See Source »

...Lost Sheep. Rev. William Wampus, awaiting the completion of a new parish house, moves with his wife (Marie Cecilia ["Cissie"] Loftus) and three comely daughters to a recently abandoned bordello in Higher Hempstead, Middlesex, England. So that the play's double meanings will not elude even the dullest playgoer, Mrs. Wampus continually addresses her daughters as "her girls," and the daughters further the effect by referring to her as "madame." Complications set in as soon as the young men of the neighborhood, believing that nothing more untoward has occurred than a change of management, begin calling on the telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 19, 1930 | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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