Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...take to be a writer earning respectable money? Charles Fulton Oursler, now 36, finished all schooling with seventh grade grammar, in Baltimore. Thereafter he studied French literature, sleight-of-hand, farm implements, music. He earned money by the last three. Real success came with his play, The Spider, a Broadway smash in 1927, now playing in Budapest and Paris. His somewhat spiritualized view of Adah Menken is partly explained by his membership in the American Society for Psychic Research...
...After all, Abie's Irish Rose only ran five years on Broadway. Surely the Walker Follies, which has no plot, cannot hope to equal that record...
...Broadway Nights. The Brothers Shubert, playing an infallible system which calls for sprigs of vaudeville and bouquets of decoration, find it profitable to keep at least two musical shows going at once. No sooner had their Pleasure Bound closed than they prepared Broadway Nights to companion their A Night in Venice. If a blindfolded playgoer were ushered into one, then permitted to look, he might easily mistake it for the other...
...first act of Broadway Nights a group of tinted chorines dance before a mammoth synthetic rosebush. In the second act the celebration is repeated for orchids. The cast is headed by Odette Myrtil, a rough-voiced Parisienne who makes pantherlike glides around the stage while playing cardiac tunes on her violin. This combination of music and motion is popular, but by any comparative standard the name of Laura Lee, the show's small, vivacious song-plugger, should also be featured...
Dixie Dugan is played by pert, agile Ruby Keeler ("Mrs. Al") Jolson, whose reedy little voice blends naturally with familiar Broadway trebles. On the stage she is almost lost in the magnificence of scenes conceived by Joseph Urban, court painter to Producer Ziegfeld...