Word: shubertism
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...Practically all the work of the stage is being done by young men today." Vinton Freedley '14, one of the young men of the threatre at the present time, and author of "Lady, Be Good," "Tip Toes," "Oh Kay," "Funny Face," and "Here's Howe" now playing at the Shubert, is the authority for this statement...
...Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), blackface comedian, said to Producer J. J. Shubert over long-distance telephone: "I'd do anything in the world just to help you out-for a certain sum." So it was agreed that Mr. Yoelson would appear in A Night in Spain, musical comedy now running in Chicago, at a salary of $10,000 a week for four weeks...
...impression thus far obtained is no doubt that the Shubert is no place for a sane man. Far be it from this reviewer to be so dogmatic as that. There are undoubtedly those who will think "Countess Maritza" is just great, but to the intelligent part of the population, that part at any rate which has been to an operetta, say, just once before, let these words be a warning
...always painful to witness the nativity of a new musical production, but the embryonic pangs experienced by the initial performance of the eighth Greenwich Village "Follies" at the Shubert Theatre this week were rather poignantly and inconsiderately forced upon the innocent spectator. In its entirety it left much the same impression that a mid-year examination wrestled with but not downed, leaves. Certainly it is no place for the student who has an examination the next day, as it requires at least 24 hours to recover from the chaotic mass of folly presented. Nor will the weary student trying...
However, it is possible that no innocent student should wind his merry way to the Shubert unchaperoned these days. For there he will encounter nothing but various concoctions all labelled "naughty" and exploiting various and sundry degress of "it". The "Follies" have a butter-and-egg complex, and supplement everything risque with the 100 beautiful legs of the 50 glorious Greenwich models. While it is dernier cri in New York smartness, the closest glimpse one gets of the notorious Village is a night club whose snaky denizens seem to be suffering from the effects of the last rehearsals. Indeed...