Word: successively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, the endowed Neighborhood Playhouse, introducer to the U. S. of The Dybbuk and other famed plays, announced that it would close its doors at the close of the current season, pending material expansion prompted by success...
Spread Eagle. A wave of melodrama has swept Manhattan this year. On the crest of it, Jed Harris, youthful impresario, rides to glory. Recently a reporter on the theatrical weekly, Variety, he took to producing comedies with scant success, turned later to melodrama, offered Broadway, now lolls in plush. His second venture this season, Spread Eagle, another melodrama, cannot fail to make the audience wilt with excitement, the box office swell with receipts...
...Madame Butterfly; Gilbert & Sullivan's lolanthe and Pirates of Penzance; and Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana. In Manhattan, the first three were presented. From a financial point of view, the second two did better than the first. On the whole, the venture into professional entertainment met with fair success, enough to establish the practicability of the enterprise, to encourage fur- ther effort of the same nature...
...mind. Wilfrid, a normal eldest son, inherits peace and his father's lands. Robin, who gets drunk too often, marries a country wench and offers succor to Angela when her family find that she has loved not wisely and entirely too well. Stephen becomes a poet, whose small success is not justified by the execrable outpourings of his muse so unfortunately quoted by Prose-Writer Sinclair...
...deemed his Provincetown Players a failure when they were an obvious success and was for beginning afresh on his ideal of a community playhouse. But he was 48 and Greece had called him since he was 16. They went. He built huts for them on Parnassos, shared his "drunkenly Greek" mind with the shepherds, revived Socratic dialogs beside the Acropolis, relived his whole life, by memory and poetry, garbed as a Delphic shepherd. He died there (1924) of glanders contracted by nursing a stray puppy...