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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after the show, Artist Coze prepared to sail for America for a visit to Indian reservations and to the Cheyenne rodeo in July. When he returns, the Club de Lasso may found a dude ranch. so that Parisians may ride hard across the mesas of the Loire Valley or along the buttes of the Midi...
...went into its second week after drawing nearly $14,000 at the George M. Cohan Theatre. In five other Eastern cities it packed theatres. But the greatest triumph of The Son of the Sheik was at Chicago's Garrick Theatre, where it did more business than any other show in town except Holiday, accompanied by Tommy Dorsey's swing band. Garrick audiences were apparently about evenly divided between middle-aged women and young girls who had heard about Rudy Valentino from their mothers. Wrote one lady patron to the theatre's manager: "I loved him, I loved...
...hero's amiably light-headed crony-is played with whimsicality a shade less grim than usual by Edward Everett Horton. Omitting his own classic monologue on "How I Invented the Bottle," Screenwriter Stewart has substituted as the role's piece de resistance a lightly Leftish Punch & Judy show...
Twenty years ago, when gentlemen wore starched cuffs and ladies hid in corsets, musical shows were romantic, exotic and historical. The best of them, known as operettas, became minor classics and were repeatedly performed by stock light-opera companies throughout the U. S. During the peak years of U. S. operetta (1910-20), four composers dominated the field: Irish-born Victor Herbert (Naughty Marietta, etc.), Bohemian-born Charles Rudolph Friml (Katinka), Hungarian-born Sigmund Romberg (In Blossom Time), and Manhattan-born Jerome David Kern (Sally, Show Boat...
...well as in Manhattan's Randall's Island and Long Island's Jones Beach. Most important of these festivals, that of the 20-year-old St. Louis Municipal Theater Association, opened last week with a repertory that included such old-timers as Chimes of Normandy, Rosalie, Show Bout, and Roberta, such latter-day specimens as White Horse Inn. Opener for the twelve-week festival was a brand new work by owl-faced Old-timer Jerome Kern entitled Gentlemen Unafraid. With a Civil-Wartime libretto carpentered by the experienced hands of Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, Gentlemen...