Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These productions are frivolous and shinful: Funny Face, Show Boat, Good News, A Connecticut Yankee, Manhattan Mary, Take the Air, Keep Shufflin...
Except for Harry Lauder, who owns his own show and makes some $10,000 a week, Mr. Yoelson's salary is the largest known in theatrical circles. Marilyn Miller gets $6,000 in Rosali. Eddie Cantor, before his illness, was making $5,000 in Mr. Ziegfeld's Follies. Moran and Mack as a vaudeville team get $3,000 a week...
...entered college until their graduation. The manuscript, which is typewritten, was evidently written by Mr. Dos Passos during his travels as parts of it are dated from such remote places as Beirut, Syria. It is on 214 large sheets and contains many corrections in the author's autograph which show painstaking revision. If one judges from the other markings on the sheets, the printed book itself was set up from them...
...unread as the Congressional Record. Several things are wrong with Anderson, to his mind. He is to obsessed with sex, and sex perversion. "Winesburg, Ohio" was saturated with people, ranging from the philosopher who does not understand his own sexual frustration and so is writing a book to show that all the world is Christ and is suffering on the Cross, to the hotel proprietor's wife who, after a life of scrubbed floors and emptied cuspidors, is soother in the arms of death by the kisses of an understanding doctor. The book is sane and almost completely damnatory...
...probably no pictures in the exposition which can ever be thought of as great masterpieces and there are some that are utterly commonplace; but there are very many which are decidedly pleasing in color and design and handling, and as a whole it is an unusually gay and cheerful show, one of the most entertaining that has been seen in Boston for some time. Fortunately too, a setting has been provided which has permitted hanging the pictures with little undue crowding, and they are well lighted...