Word: roading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first road performance of the show took place on Saturday, April 7, at the Academy of Music in Northampton. Immediately following the performance the cast boarded the train, traveling westward all the following day to Chicago...
...doesn't seem at all funny now. Finally comes the Sunday night before the Monday opening, when the final dress rehearsal occurs. It starts at 7 o'clock in the evening and continues until about 7 or 8 o'clock the following morning. Then the weeks spent on the road before going into New York are full of trials. One audience never sees exactly the same performance that another sees...
...sold copper to the Government at half its market value, the Great War demand and the elimination of costly selling-methods gave the corporation great profits. But they were only incidental to his War efforts. Incidental also was the construction of 30 miles of railroad in Wisconsin. The road cost $12,000,000 and carried the precious spruce, logged in Wisconsin, to the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, which carried them to the airplane-factories which Mr. Ryan was supervising for the Government. That the 30 miles of track completed an important railroad-connection needed...
...Representatives from Yale University. Said Dr. Luther Allan Weigle, dean-elect of the Yale School of Divinity: "If the older generation is motor-mad, radio-ragged, jumping with jazz and hungry with lust, we may expect the younger generation to go further and faster on the same road." Fay Campbell, secretary of the Yale Y. M. C. A., told about sex: "If a student comes for help on the sex-question I must not be satisfied with just giving him advice, but I must show, for instance, how he may be helping prostitution by buying a scarf made under conditions...
Hailed before the Equity Council to explain why she had deserted the road company of Her Cardboard Lover, why she had lounged in Milwaukee and then returned to Manhattan while her show went westward without her, Actress Jeanne Eagels languidly stated her defense. She had been ill, she said, and had not been able to appear. The producers, Gilbert Miller and Albert Herman Woods, should have hired an understudy...