Word: roadshow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week toward the New York World's Fair (thence to New England) rolled a roadshow long promised to stamp collectors by Jim Farley: a three-ton truck fitted up as a philatelic museum, displaying 535 varieties, representing every U. S. stamp. Announced value was $1,000,000, although the displays are unused, unsalable, imperforate proofs from original plates. Visitors to the truck can buy a 10? history of U. S. philately, current and commemorative stamps. Hot off a tiny press, they get blue souvenir stickers of the White House portico where Philatelist Roosevelt last week dedicated...
Cocky, 19-year-old Edward Furman, picked from the slummy East Side for the roadshow role of Spit, swaggered gloriously in the part for $45 a week, ad libbed obscenities that brought qualms to managements, blushes to the cast, thrills to the audience. Another convincing performer in the same company was seasoned Actress Millicent Green (Stevedore, The Left Bank), as Francey, the streetwalker...
...Nights in a Bar-Room (Roadshow Productions). In cities where drinking is the principal source of humor for a large social class this tract has been successful when presented as burlesque. There is nothing burlesqued in the picture and the serious mood makes it funnier than any burlesque could be. It is funny in an amiable, homely way, as if long before the sound-device or Prohibition had ever been heard of a company had somehow made Ten Nights in a Bar-Room with sound and revived it now as a gentle souvenir of the cinema technique as well...