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Word: shows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...type of play they are producing nowadays is primarily the musical comedy," said Freedley. Being particularly interested in musical comedy, the author of "Here's Howe" proceeded to review for the CRIMSON reporter the building up of a girl-and-music show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorine-Picking Described by Harvard Musical Comedy Writer--Vinton Freedley '14 Is Author of "Here's Howe" | 4/17/1928 | See Source »

Dulcet and decorative :Show Boat, A Connecticut Yankee, The Three Musketeers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...bonus was in the form of a spry though greying couple who appeared on the passenger list as "Mr. and Mrs, John Robinson." On the third night out John Robinson mounted the Majesties concert platform and cried genially: "Look here, you people, I am Henry Ford and I will show you how to amuse yourselves in the proper way. What about old-fashioned dances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mysterious Robinsons | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...expect the younger generation to go further and faster on the same road." Fay Campbell, secretary of the Yale Y. M. C. A., told about sex: "If a student comes for help on the sex-question I must not be satisfied with just giving him advice, but I must show, for instance, how he may be helping prostitution by buying a scarf made under conditions of sweated labor in some Far East factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Again, Jerusalem. | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

Hailed before the Equity Council to explain why she had deserted the road company of Her Cardboard Lover, why she had lounged in Milwaukee and then returned to Manhattan while her show went westward without her, Actress Jeanne Eagels languidly stated her defense. She had been ill, she said, and had not been able to appear. The producers, Gilbert Miller and Albert Herman Woods, should have hired an understudy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Ill Eagels | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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