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Many of the Saturday night dances will be given in their traditional forms again this year. Lowell has added a picnic supper with "top-quality hamburgers" to their Courtyard Dance fare; there will be a Kirkland "Mississippi Showboat" and a Dunster "Masquerade Dance." The Dunster committee has promised that "prizes will be given for the best costumes and the least-dressed girl...

Author: By B.m. Ocallahan, | Title: Tea, Concert Highlight Spring Weekend | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

When The Beggar's Opera ends its run, the new Mrs. Cassidy will have exactly two days to get down to Dallas, Texas, and begin rehearsals there for a production of Showboat. Her husband, meanwhile, will have a week of freedom before reporting for work on Kiss Me Kate in Boston. Shirley and Jack think that they may be able to get together for a while in September before Shirley goes to Hollywood, but they're not at all sure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shirley Jones to Be in Beggar's Opera | 7/19/1956 | See Source »

...looked the soul of matronly dignity. One night last week, wearing a black-lace-over-taffeta dress, a rope of artificial pearls and a corsage of roses pinned demurely over her ample midriff she stepped quietly in front of Bob Scobey's Dixieland combo in Oakland's Showboat Cafe. When she let fly with Ain't Gonna Give You None of My Jelly Roll, she rocked the Showboat. She clapped her hands, snapped her fingers shuffled her feet, flapped her elbows. The singer was New Orleans' Lizzie Miles, 60 one of the last of a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lizzie's Return | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...second act. For its first three-fourths, the play is simply a below-par musical revue, a series of mediocre songs and dances unhampered by any connecting thread. Indeed, Jo Mielziner's one set does remind you that this is all taking place on a rather battered Showboat, but there is no other perceptible connection with...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: The Playgoer | 1/10/1952 | See Source »

...Republican Party has been sold down the river so many times in Boston that people are beginning to call it "Showboat." At least this is the charge leveled by a large group of city Republicans against prominent members of the Party who consistently support Democratic candidates. Despairing men like Henry Shattuck, Murray Forbes, Jr., and William Lund, saying that it was suicide to support Republicans candidates, have for years advised giving support to worthy Democrats...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 10/2/1951 | See Source »

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