Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of that spring season at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre is far better known than that of any other successful play of equally long ago, because the theatre cash book for this year has been preserved. Mr. Gay secured it, and it is now one of the notable treasures in the Harvard Library, where the Theatre Collection and the English Literature section are striving to make good their respective claims to its custody. A pack of cards, on each of which is one of the tunes or a verse from one of the songs of the opera...
...American Anti-Imperialist League. The League wants to put stamps bearing the inscription. "Protest Against Marine Rule in Nicaragua" on the backs of envelopes. The Postmaster has decided, however, that the Marines can not be classed in the same boat with the "White Death", especially out of the Christmas season. He has forbidden the stamps passage in the mall under the section of the U. S. Penal Code relating to the sending through the mails of libelous, scurrilous, defamatory and threatening matter...
Exuberant was the way corporations, a year ago, announced their 1926 earnings. This season they have been more sedate in publishing the 1927 figures. A few firms who reported last week were...
...Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare has been but scatteringly surveyed this season by the more earnest theatre followers. Save the irreverent and eminently amusing Taming of the Shrew in modern clothes there has been no long run of the Bard's shows. Therefore, George Arliss was strategically situated to seize serious theatregoers by the ears and drag them toward his Shylock. He may still do so. No one can plot the perversities of theatregoers. Yet it was the feeling of many authorities that his Shylock was indifferent...
...must to all men--in the phraseology of "Time"--comes the opera season to the denizens of Greater Boston. It is a signal for many time honored customs: for Willa Jerdone and Betty Alden, experts on Society, to go quite, quite berserk in descriptions of what is being worn in the foyer; for the illustrators of department store advertisements to draw countless long necked and apparently under-nourished grande dames; for H. T. P. to polish off some terse enigmatic quips surmounted by the conventional H. T. P. headlines; for music stores to haul out dusty liberties; for discussions...