Word: roadshows
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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...
...Columbus, Ohio, hovered about racetracks, sold papers, learned how to bum. Then he was converted, went to a seminary in Northfield, Mass. Prepared for the ministry, he was on his way to Philadelphia when he saw the Great Herrmann, master magician, and followed him to Syracuse. He joined a roadshow, a circus, organized a show of his own, toured the country, toured the world, joined Kellar as junior partner, succeeded him. Now he is 60, successful, reminiscent...