Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York on or about that date. Approval! Approval! Approval! New York is the only fit and adequate home for TIME and I have already noted an improvement in your issued of August 1, August 8 and August 15. They have more savor already and they seem to me to show that you are now successfully gleaning a much larger field of news information than you could possibly have drawn upon in small-town Cleveland. J. C. SINGER...
Midsummer Night's Dream. Again Salzburg buzzed. This happens every year in August. It is then that the better hotels bestir themselves to show celebrated visitors* to the rooms reserved months in advance. It is then that wretched hostelries truss up dilapidated chambers for the heedless hundreds who have arrived without provision. It is the season of the world-famed Festival, when Max Reinhardt? produces old plays in a manner always unique. The one thing visitors can be reasonably sure of in these Festivals is that they will start with a play related in some way to religion, in accordance...
...these men be known as U. S. musicians would be known? "laborers in the field of music"?and automatically there will be restriction upon their entrance. Restaurants, jazz orchestras, show producers will have to fall back upon the 138,000 union musicians. They will not be able to lure the beggared fiddlers of Europe to the U. S. with wages that appear fabulous to the foreigner though equal to only half the current scale...
...Arcola Amusement Park, N. J., one George Romanov, side-show wrestler, swelled his muscles, slapped his paunch, grunted at the crowd, "Who's nex'? Who's nex'?" No burly boy came forward. So Wrestler Romanov, feeling potent, had the show's trained bear brought into the ring. The bear patted, pawed, nuzzled Wrestler Romanov, hugged him close. Wrestler Romanov squirmed, grunted, plunged from the ring, ran?bear behind?to Saddle River, dove in, swam to safety...
...staging fumbles; but Victor Moore as an amateur elocutionist, Charles Butterworth as a terrified orator, a pair of clown esthetic dancers and the pretty chorus in a burlesque of Roxy Theatre pageants manage to boost the entertainment to the high level that theatre-goers expect of a show boasting sketches by J. P. McEvoy...