Word: shubertism
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...preferred what was then the greater glory and emolument of the legitimate stage to the comparatively bastard screen. Baby Mine was his first vehicle (in stock company). In 1910, they say, it was a smart and even froward thing. In 1927, it looks like a bustle in a Shubert show. Mr. Arbuckle enacts a pulpy mass who alternately stews in sweaty fear and freezes in gelatinous embarrassment, because a lady of his acquaintance tries to win back her husband with a show of triplets, the same being potentially the offspring of any male in the cast. Actor Arbuckle, exiled from...
...Smyth, Chairman, Miss Alice Shubert; D. Garden, Miss Elita Berdoine; H. L. Harvey, Miss Alice Light; F. E. Sears, Jr., Miss Alice Stetson I. H. Light, Miss Mary Smith; A. C. Smith, Miss Jannette Murphy; T. E. Finley, Jr., Miss Dorothy Shinneman; W. D. Morton, Jr., Miss Thelma Smith; A. H. Thiemann...
...brilliance, and entertainment values are concerned, the book of "Katja", now at the Shubert, might as well have been written by Brooks Brothers, which it was not, as by the usually adept Frederick Lonsdale, which it was. This is no musical comedy equal of "Spring Cleaning." "The Last of Mrs. Cheney,"--or even of "On Approval." Nor is it, taken by and large--which is-the only way to take these Viennese concoctions--a particularly good-show. It has its moments but they are pitifully short and unbelievably sparse...
...Circus Princess. Invariably, inevitably, Shubert operettas record the travail of royalty romancing incognito, the while platoons of chorus girls in superlatively gorgeous colors stamp across brilliant backgrounds. The Circus Princess is "the most pretentious operetta ever presented by the Messrs. Shubert." What happens...
...Shubert--"The Vagabond King"--8 o'clock--A chance for Boston to slum. . .to music...