Word: scollay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scollay Square--Four Feathers. 9 to 10.30 o'clock...
...Scollay Square--Four Feathers. 9 to 10.30 o'clock...
...theatre where only good, clean acts are presented. It is a theatre to which you may take your Mother, your wife, or your child. There censorship has erected a screen against all filth but tobacco, and has closed all suggestive displays but the stage door. It is located near Scollay Square. It is known as the "Old Howard...
...blue eyes could see, was the People?on roofs and on streets. It took an hour for the Smith automobile to travel 20 blocks. For safety the motor had to be shut off; the People pushed the car. An old man in a robe stood on a truck at Scollay Square; he held aloft a sign saying: "Diogenes looking for Hoover Prosperity." The air was full of a thousand Smiths and not a few O'Briens; they were on pages of torn-up telephone books. It was getting dark. The Smith mounted a bandstand on Boston Common. Noise. Ambulances. Later...
...there you have it. If you think you can be amused (which we were) by Mitzi's impersonation of a little girl injected with a few good cracks, an evening at the Shubert will repay you. If you are a Scollay Square aesthete, or a devotee of Max Reinhardt, you will probably be more contented at home...