Word: taverns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Right.?Everything is explained when it is learned that John Meehan, who helped write and stage the play, used to be a director with George M. Cohan. The shrewd touch of that nasal genius is everywhere conspicuous. The twin wraiths of Seven Keys to Baldpate and The Tavern wander spectrally amongst the audience...
Donald Brian, as a tavern-keeper and a little something besides, conceives a publicity coup. He officially denies the presence of hidden treasure about the place. The result is that the tavern is crammed with doubloon-seekers in no time at all. The whole building and grounds surrounding it are torn limb from limb by industrious axes, hammers...
...Tiger Rose" is itself a typical melodrama, and Mr. Mack would have done better if he had revised his play in the places where the dialogue smacks too much of "The Tavern". In an intensely melodramatic moment in the last act, Bruce Norton ends his speech by uttering in a hoarse whisper "Damn him!", and the doctor hoarsely whispers back "My God!" Whereupon the audience bursts out laughing. Nevertheless melodrama is melodrama, and it would never do for the heroine to talk pidgin-English without a steady flow of "damn" and "hell". For the audience loves...
...third successive time, President Lowell making the presentation. The winning dormitory sang "Upidee" and "Up the Street" with N. L. Bean '25 as leader; Smith Halls, "Who Did?," and "Here's a Health to King Charles", with M. L. Brown '26 as leader; and Standish, "There is a Tavern in the Town" and "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" with Russell Deward '25 as leader. Standish won the cup in 1919, while Smith cautured it the two previous years...
With the appearance of straws and the beginning of the hegira to Revere Beach, the end of the "legitimate" season in Boston draws toward its close. "The Tavern", at the Tremont, is probably the last of the reputed first-rate productions that we can look for here before next fall, and it is not the sort of play to suffer much from hot weather. The fickle Mr. Cohan, who sometimes make us suspect that he is as good a publicity agent as he is actor, author and producer, has broken his vow of theatrical chastity again and honored Boston with...