Word: shubertism
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Hello Paris. The headliner in this latest outcropping of bad taste produced by the Brothers Shubert is that exponent of scatology, Charles Partlow ("Chic") Sale. Mr. Sale is the man who brought the subject of rural sanitation to the immediate attention of the U. S. public last year when he published a slim volume called The Specialist which has sold some 650,000 copies. As a side issue he has also endorsed a cathartic (Ex-lax). But the first and principal vocation of Mr. Sale remains the theatre. He has been on the stage for the past 18 years...
...sermon whose text was indirectly taken from the Bible. Vanities, saith the preacher, my Vanity of Vanities is now showing in Boston. Speaking as a man of God, Earl Carroll deplored the rigid censorship of his nigh Eve like girls as they appeared in his musical comedy at the Shubert. He created art unappreciated by the staid Bostonian morality as voiced by City Censor Casey. Besides bare legs Mr. Carroll pleaded for more profanity on the stage of today; he wanted a revival of Flesh and the Devil...
...Shubert--"Earl Carroll's Sketch Book" with no end of incipient Miss Americas and but a few yards of flimsy silk between themselves and perdition...
...would seem that the edition of "Sketch Book" now entertaining audiences at the Shubert deviates not one bit from the above manner except that being in Boston the nudity and the dirt are a bit covered up. It is the first of annual reviews under this name which Mr. Carrol promises to produce and the following editions should not have to suffer by comparison...
...Messrs. Shubert have taken pains to point out that "all Inca detail in Nina Rosa, as well as the Inca designs for the curtains, are based upon authentic relics and data obtained in Peruvian museums." Settings appeared authentic, chorines merely Perusable...