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...wasn't the Shubert's, although it happened before they went under. But that's the gag on the road, you know. . . Not content with doing their own business. . .producers have to go out of their way to try and injure someone else's. Why is it like that? I don't know. I was my own manager for ten years in this country. I should know all about...
...Showman Lee Shubert, in Manhattan, of a glandular ailment; Banker Paul Moritz Warburg, in Manhattan, of a "breakdown of the eye nerves"; Jane Addams, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, recovering rapidly from an operation for ovarian cyst; Cinemactress Marjorie White, in Philadelphia, of severe injuries suffered in an auto crash; Cinemactress Pola Negri, in Santa Monica, Calif., following a critical operation for an intestinal obstruction; Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, of a broken collarbone suffered during his morning canter, when his mount stumbled and fell on him; Biographer Giles Lytton Strachey, of paratyphoid fever; Winston Leonard...
...Dodge has had considerable experience in the dramatic world being closely allied with such men as Belasco, Crest, Shubert, and has had considerable influence in the promotion of the American Theater, being founder of the first American Theatre in Europe...
...Shubert--"The Little Racketeer" Queenie Smith feeling right at home...
...their casts harder, paying their chorus girls less, driving the sharpest bargains on Broadway. In 1927 Lee & Jake owned, leased or operated 43 first class theatres in New York, 55 in other U. S. cities, six in London. Came the Depression and the revolt of the Broadway angels. The Shuberts sold their British theatres; most of the others remained dark. Wall Street attempted to take over-with the predictable result that last week the bankruptcy became official. A loss of about $3,000,000 was disclosed. So Lee Shubert, who always keeps a large red apple on his desk, insists...