Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: TIME seems to have been content to follow the New York World in omitting the Lehigh Valley from the list of railroads permitting smoking in dining cars. Fortunately, however, for the Lehigh Valley, the World's Bureau of Accuracy and Fair Play promptly corrected the omission. Will TIME do as much? More than a year ago, the Lehigh Valley announced on menu cards on the Black Diamond, the New Yorker and other trains that diners might smoke should they so desire. N. W. PRINGLE Passenger Traffic Manager Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. New York City Further evidence...
...once in his spare time wrote a simple Melody in A Major which is heard in the U. S. chiefly on a phonograph record by Violinist Fritz Kreisler. Ambassador Dawes is today a London vogue. So, reported Publishers Boosey & Co., is his Melody in A Major. Orchestras play it in leading restaurants. Sheet-music sales are great. His Master's Voice and the Columbia companies will soon issue new recordings. Fortnight ago William F. Kenny, rich...
Houseparty. To one who thinks of a college fraternity houseparty as an interlude of innocuous kissing in dark alcoves, light tippling in sequestered nooks and lavatories, and a ceaseless round of hot-and-bothersome dancing, this play will be a surprise. To men of Williams College it may even be shocking. For at the house-party herein represented a murder is done, and the locale of the deed is a chapter house on the pleasant campus at Williamston, Mass...
...Author Roy Hargrave, who plays the unfortunate hero, is a sometime Williams man (1926), an adept at neurotic portraiture. He makes a terrifying thing of the sophomore's plight. Otherwise the play is often ill-designed; its dialog smacks of college magazines rather than colleges. The other coauthor, a Williams alumnus (1923), is Kenneth P. Britton...
Jealousy (Paramount). Louis Verneuil's play was much praised on Broadway last season for technical cleverness -its only characters were the ex-mistress of a boulevardier, her new husband, an all-too-human telephone. Maddened by things he heard over the wire, the husband finally went out to slay the other man. This story has now been made into a sound cinema. The unseen lover appears, but to no advantage. Jeanne Eagels as the wife employs a ridiculous English accent, the action is turgid, the photo-graphs dull. Silliest shot: Frederic March taking time out to suppress his justifiable...