Word: tanqueray
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...appropriations (TIME, July 26). Mr. Warren had public respect, not only as a Senator, businessman - many had that - but as a substantial patron of the drama. Perhaps he recalled, as he passed the Masonic Temple, how 20 years past he had endeavored to bring Hamlet and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray to Wyoming by building the Capitol Avenue House. It had burned, although Gentleman Gambler "Old Tom" Heany had for a time made a very respectable gambling house from the remains. Senator Warren passed the red-brick schoolhouse, the Elks Club house, bumped bustling Babbitts, paused before the skeleton...
...noted by several of the professional spectators that every English playwright has one plot in his system that he must unloose before he is happy. This is the story of the somewhat battered woman who marries into complete respectability and utter boredom (Tanqueray). Mr. Coward has now written it fairly well...
Last week, I attended a performance of The Second Mrs. Tanqueray. Directly in front of me sat a middle-aged gentleman with his wife, both faultlessly attired in evening clothes. From his general appearance, I should promptly classify him to be a man of culture and education...
...localities where stock companies are playing at present. The Root Bros, organization is about to tour the Dakotas under canvas. Brown Bros, dramatic stock is tenting the fields of Illinois. Miss Jessie Bonstelle, having just begun a stock season at the Harlem Opera House with The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, is now in Detroit, at the opening of her summer stock company there...
...Profligate," Mr. Copeland said, is one of Pinero's best plays, but is not nearly equal to several other contemporary plays of the same sort, such as "The Doll House," translated from Ibsen, "Magda" by Zudemann, or "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray," by Pinero himself. The "Profligate" is of interest, for it is an attempt to write a serious play which shall give a true picture of life...