Word: shops
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur has arranged with the Lampoon to take over the room which Jimmie's Lunch has occupied for the past few years downstairs in the Lampoon Building. Arthur will also have the Lampoon showroom permanently at his disposal, as the Lampoon has decided to convert Benny Hyte's tailor shop into a larger and better showroom...
...Price of Pleasure. The story of a rich man who married a shop girl and thereby annoyed his excessively aristocratic mother has also reappeared. They are separated. She suffers and is pulled back to married happiness by the chubby little fingers of their child. Good direction and a good performance by Louise Fazenda help ease the audience...
...Scholar White of Baltimore has taught Latin and Greek to boys for a long time. Of an evening, when quizzes are corrected and report cards made out, instead of a cigar, bridge and radio at the Faculty Club, he permits himself to muse on humanities that are "shop" to most of his profession. Andivius Hedulio (1921) was the rich biography of a Roman youth in the tawny splendor of the Augustan Age. Now Scholar White fleshes in that (violet-eyed, dusky-haired) laconic lady who dislocated the destinies of Troy...
...lights come on at the wrong time. The stage properties become inextricably mixed with painters and carpenters, and the actors pace out their distances like boxers going to the corners of the ring. After everything has been done to assure "Dora's Dilemna", the play within "The Show Shop", a swift and rapid failure. New York throws its arms wide and hails it as the success of the season. Which all goes to prove oh, not very much...
...stock company, which was peculiarly strong in its juveniles and character parts, and proportionately weak in its leading men and women, light comedy was the happiest vehicle of production. Appropriately the St. James players have chosen just such a medium for their final appearance. "The Show Shop" leaves them at their best...