Word: wallack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guns. At Wallack's Theatre in Manhattan, called by a punster "the flophouse" because of the many failures it has housed, opened last week a piece called Guns. The first act was laid in a speakeasy in Manhattan, the second in a speakeasy in Chicago, the third at the Mexican border. Charlie O'Connor, Chicago racketeer, induced chaste Cora Chase to go with him to the Mexican-U.S. line, there to smuggle contraband Chinese into the states. Into the picture another racketeer, "The Colorado Special," thrust himself, looked gaga at Cora, she at him. He joined...
...paper. It attracted little attention, until six, months later when it was brought east by Archibald C. Gunter, the well-known author, and given to Mr. Hopper, with the suggestion that he might some day be able to use it. "I was playing at the time at Wallack's Theatre", Mr. Hopper explained, "and we were giving a special performance for the Chicago White Sox and the Giants, who were then playing a series in New York. It so happened that I was passing through a serious personal crisis, my young son being desperately ill on Long Island. I felt...