Word: yorkers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Word has been passed around that Broadway will be cleared of subway debris within the next three weeks. This is a consummation devoutly to be wished. But will the average New Yorker recognize his most famous thoroughfare again after such a sudden transformation by elimination of the mining-camp excavations, the derricks and littered side-walks? Years have now elapsed since the city's streets have been in anything like normal condition, although originally we were assured that the "cut-and-cover" method of excavation would leave scarcely a scar on their fair surface. We have grown accustomed to chaos...
...imagination, but rather to the fact that he has failed to make the best of what he had in hand. The first act, for instance, is talky in the extreme. Before there can be a play the audience must know that the apartment of Mr. George MacFarland, wealthy New Yorker, has been robbed, that he is thoroughly disgusted with the stupidity of the police in allowing the burglars to escape and so, to prove how utterly dead is the arm of the law, he makes a wager with friends that he can commit a gross crime and, given...
...like the beginning; yet the play holds throughout, and as acted by Miss Dorothy Donnelly, Mr. John Barrymore and an even company, it is such a treat as seldom comes the way of theatre-goers. Mr. Barrymore in particular by his impersonation of the discarded well-to-do New Yorker added no little to his reputation as an actor. No better production has been given a play in Boston this season; and with the possible exception of the Irish Players we have had no better acting...
...play is somewhat different from Mr. Sheldon's former work. The scene is laid in Coney Island, and the plot deals with a rich young New Yorker who hires himself out as a pianist in a side show. He falls in love with the Princess Zim-Zim and the rest of the play revolves about their love story. Aside from the plot, the play is interesting chiefly as a vivid picture of Coney Island life...
...Sturgis 1G. Jim Forsythe, editor of the "Start," W. A. Searle 1G. Abe Lewis a "dumper", R. D. Whittemore '13 Banks, a negro servant in the Rodgers J. R. K. Taylor uC. America Sparrow, a negro "mammy" in the Floyd home, Miss Louise Burleigh Dixon mason, a young New Yorker, R. C. Benchley '12 Sam Bullen, a Kentucky "Colonel," W. C. Woodward '12 "Mister" Theodore Page, a Kentucky "Private," M. T. Quigg '13 Mary Floyd, his niece, Miss Marjorie E. Smith David Bollivar, of the tobacco pool, E. W. Hammond...