Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shubert Apollo--"After Dark." Reviewed in this issue...
...extremely difficult to pass judgment on an old-fashioned melodrama of the type of "After Dark", now playing at the Shubert Apollo, chiefly because standards of criticism have changed so greatly that for one whose theatre-going has all been in the present, so to speak, there are no comparisons on which to base an opinion. Hastily constructed standards will have to suffice...
...Richards's presence is indeed comforting, but if his zeal continues unabated, we fear that the Yale game won't end until midnight. And with Albie Booth perhaps running wild in the dark, Harvard's chances--well, you can draw your own conclusions. --Boston Herald...
...Havana, a baby born to blonde Senora Caridad Perez developed black eyes, dark skin, kinky hair. A baby born to brunette Bernardina Vega became blonde, blue-eyed. Senor Perez sued for divorce. Police investigated, found that the babies, born in the same hospital, had been bathed together, mixed. Senor Perez canceled his suit...
...Miss Keller when Dunne exclaimed: "God, how dull it must be for her. every day the same and every night the same as the day!" Said Clemens: "You're damned wrong there; blindness is an exciting business, I tell you; if you don't believe it, get up some dark night on the wrong side of your bed and your house is on fire and try to find the door...