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Excess Baggage. This romance of a tightrope walker proved agreeable. Vaudeville slang and another peek into the no longer private lives of stage people were foremost factors. The hitherto useless wife of the tight-rope man suddenly became a famous movie star. She went slack on her marital obligations, one of which was to stand at the stage end of the tightrope when her husband took his famed slide from the balcony. In her absence, he took the slide (in full view of the audience) and crashed. She hurried out to pick up the pieces; love bloomed anew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

...SHANNONS OF BROADWAY?A slang investigation of hotel management in small towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 2, 1928 | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...SHANNONS OF BROADWAY- Slang and complications as two vaudeville troupers settle in a small town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

Since it is avowedly "American", even containing slang expressions which had their American heyday some four years ago it cannot be taken as the English counterpart of the Lampoon. The English, however, should also be warned that the Lampoon is far from the typically American undergraduate comic publication. For such examples one must seek one of the many professionally collegiate periodicals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IT IS TO LAUGH | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...SHANNONS OF BROADWAY? Fable in slang to glorify city bred actors in charge of a country hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1927 | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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