Word: theater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who attend the University Theater this week to see Edward G. Robinson, cast as Mike, the Portagee, in "Tiger Shark," will hardly be too disappointed. Robinson is the great character actor of Hollywood at present, and the movie magnates are exploiting his good name to the full in a series of second-rate films such as "The Hatchet Man" and "Tiger Shark," But those who remember Robinson washing his hands of the messes in "Five Star Final" cannot but believe that a good actor is being wasted on bad material. Miss Zita Johann, the Quita of the picture...
...your information Reri has been deported by the U. S. immigration department and sailed from New York Oct.1. She had been touring the U. S. in a Fanchon & Marco unit and while she was playing the Fox Theater in Brooklyn she was taken out of the show by the immigration officers. The unit still had about ten weeks to run before her contract...
...large percentage of 82 are habitual cigarette smokers. Eight per cent of all Harvard students smoke expensive cigarettes. It is revealed also that 66 per cent have telephones in their rooms, 70 per cent have their own typewriters, while 60 per cent own radios. In the case of the theater, 52 per cent attend the movies once a week or oftener. The seashore attracts 62 per cent in the summer and 75 per cent of these students play tennis; golf attracts only 45 per cent...
...custom of Professor Baker to put on only plays written by his students. And although he lacked an adequate theater, he was nevertheless able to produce his plays successfully. Many a young playwright had the satisfaction of seeing his piece staged by the talent of Mr. Baker. Nor was it unusual for New York managers to buy a particularly good play...
...think, of all the sloppy individuals I have ever met, Yale students take the cake, whether you see one, five, or two dozen together," said Dorothy Mackaill in an interview yesterday afternoon as she lounged between performances in her snug dressing-room at the Metropolitan Theater. "Yale fellows always look as if they were going to fall apart; I think that Harvard men are much nicer. You might say that the Yale boys can sue me if they want...