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...Shubert: "Princess Charming". Also musical and likewise not astounding...
Most prolific producers: Lee & Jake Shubert, who offered eight productions from their own offices, were associated with 27 others...
Manhattan's Broadway knows the Shubert Brothers, Lee and Jacob J. ("Jake") as producers who make a lot of money. They pick successful shows and mount them adequately but without extravagance. They pay their chorus girls less than other producers and work them harder. When they permit themselves an artistic experiment they do it less in jealousy of the laurels of literary-minded competitors than with a shrewd eye for cash profits. Last week the Shuberts said that they were going into the cinema business. Instead of paying royalties to U. S. patent holders they had bought a talking...
Artists & Models. This summer-blooming perennial of Producers Lee & Jake Shubert is called this year the "Paris-Riviera Edition of 1930." It is a vague lineal descendant of an English musical comedy called Dear Love to which has been added a repertoire of singers, dancers and acrobats, much to the bewilderment of the spectators...
...night last week, St. Louis playgoers motored, taxied or bussed into Forest Park to witness the premiere of the "Muny Opera's" twelfth season-Sigmund Romberg's Nina Rosa, which recently had its debut in Chicago. Observers at rehearsals beheld the new production manager, Milton I. Shubert, nephew of famed Producers Lee & Jake Shubert of Manhattan, trotting nervously about the wide stage, castigating carpenters, bellowing at ballerinas. A characteristic Shubert addition is the $10,000 revolving stage, largest in the U. S., built between Forest Park's renowned and majestic twin oaks (heavily insured, dosed with castor...