Word: smashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Park Avenue vacant lot neatly prettied and pedestaled, Manhattan's lively Sculptors' Guild turned out to haul, hoist and hope for vernal weather. Occasion: a repeat performance this week of its smash-hit outdoor show (TIME, April...
...Chicago last September the Federal Theatre poured old wine into a new bottle and got the whole town tipsy. Their Mikado, with an all-Negro cast, a South Sea Island setting and swing interpolations, became a smash hit overnight, in five months broke all Federal Theatre records by playing to 250,000 people and clearing...
...Broadway, as in Chicago, the swing Mikado became overnight a smash hit. But Broadway was not seriously shaken. For in spite of all temptations to run wild with syncopations, the Federal Theatre's Mikado remains an English one. Four times the show's husky-duskies break out into a rash of swing, but otherwise they play The Mikado straight. They provide a pleasant, professional performance that can stand on its own legs; but with the D'Oyly Carte troupe providing a subtler and more finished show a few blocks away, daring would have been better than diffidence...
Police arrested Dr. Clendening for disturbing the peace, destroying Government property. After four hours in a cell, where he tried to smash the toilet, he was released in $1,000 bail. Cracked a patrolman: "Would you write me a piece some day, doctor, on the best methods of curing the jitters...
...When you get to be as old as I am you'll know something about life too. I have written many plays and am sending one which is a sure smash hit. I wrote the girl's part especially for Lynn Fontanne, and the man's for Cantor. Can't you see it? What a combination...