Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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White Lights is the sixth? of plays to be produced this season dealing with life behind the scenes of show business. It is a musical comedy with a cabaret singer heroine "who comes from a good family and doesn't belong in this sort of work." There is a pretty boy for her to fall in love with and a villain to be firmly foiled...
...jokes were moldy, the dancing deft, and the vast chorus uncommonly bewitching. Imbedded none too conspicuously in the generally unwieldy proceedings is an actor named Louis John Bartels, playing his first part on Broadway since he laid a just claim to fame as the blabbering, brilliant hero of The Show...
...Those who have not followed the situation closely are compelled to recognize today-with distinct surprise, perhaps-that agriculture is . no longer the dominant activity of the South. Manufacture has outstripped it and the value of mineral products is high. . . . Mississippi and Arkansas alone among the southern states show a higher value for farm products than for manufactures and minerals...
...same sense of outraged righteousness, the same lack of a sense of humor. "The Goslings," Mr. Upton Sinclair's study of the American schools was brought to light for comparison. Mr. Sinclair states in the first page of his introduction that the purpose of his book is to show how the "invisible government of Big Business which controls the rest of America has taken over the charge of your children;" on the second page he traces his plan of attack...
...Pages 1 to 22 take you behind the scenes of that invisible government which is now ruling America, including its schools. Pages 22 to 59 show in detail what this invisible government is doing to the schools of one large American City--Los Angeles, (etc.): The concluding chapters discuss 'The Goosestep' and its critics and developments in the college world since its publication." It is all completely damning, completely integrated...