Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...town's most recent arrivals is already most sought after of the show shop amusements. "Journey's End", by a young English insurance adjuster, R. C. Sherriff, is both the greatest war play ever written and the finest new drama seen on the New York stage this season. One set, a dug-out, suffices for the play which presents a group of Englishmen confronted with the single and terrible protagonist of the war and inevitable violent death. Their reactions, intensified to the last degree, make for scenes of heart-breaking dramatic beauty. Colin Keith Johnson establishes himself as a great...
...article goes on to point out the extremely fine work done by the University of California, (especially its English Club productions in the Greek Theatre) and the other progressive developments in universities. But the trend of thought was to show how Harvard was a pioneer, and to speak of the high standard which had been at the basis of the work...
...orchestra is to have an important part in the presentation of "Close-Up," the club's spring offering. Besides rendering the musical accompaniment to the dances and songs, it is to give two specialty numbers, overtures before the two acts of the show. In addition, several soloists will be chosen, who will give selections arranged by B. D. Hanighen '30, writer of the score of the show...
That the song, "It's Up To You", featured in the talking picture "Weary River" now playing at the University Theatre was a song-hit in the Hasty Pudding Show of 1929, "Laff It Off", is the charge brought by E. F. Craig '25. Craig says that he is the author of the music to "It's Up To You", which was first written in 1924, and used under the title "The Moment I Laid Eyes on You" in the 1925 Pudding production...
Upon investigation he discovered that "It's Up To You" was published in sheet music form with the name of Louis Silvers as composer. It further appears that Silvers is the musical director for the Vitaphone productions and was coach of "Laff It Off", the 1925 Hasty Pudding show, when this song under its original name first appeared...