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...SHOW-OFF ? Glorifying the great American loud speaker. You all know him ?the man who talks so loudly and so long he has no time for toil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Comedy | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

...SHOW-OFF−One of the best comedies of this or any other season−a life-size pastel portrait of a gabby American at full blast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jul. 28, 1924 | 7/28/1924 | See Source »

...SHOW-OFF ? A penetratingly faithful and intrinsically amusing dissection of a modern loud speaker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 12, 1924 | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

...Show-Off. The glib title character is known to all of us, is part of most of us. So intent is he on making a good impression that he generally creates a bad one. He does not realize that people would concede him something in return for a larger concession of silence by him. He buys a $28 overcoat on a $32 salary, sweeps a girl off into matrimony in spite of her family, brings her back to live with her mother, penniless, in the same grand manner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

...gash on the brow for the showoff, one fine of $1,000 for his relatives to pay. "That's the law for you!" he comments. Reverses of fortune and a good lecture from a sister-in-law render him unabashed. At the end the author makes the show-off partly instrumental in bringing a fortune to the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 18, 1924 | 2/18/1924 | See Source »

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