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...best productions that Boston has harbored for a long time. "The Trial of Mary Dugan" is originally and cleverly conceived, ably written, and excellently staged and acted. More can rarely be said for a play in these days of dramatic vicissitudes when it takes more than a ladder to mount the heights of popular success...

Author: By P. C. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/25/1929 | See Source »

...Broadway, Cambridge, and Quincy streets. The site was chosen by Fire Chief J. M. Casey as an ideal place for a fire station. Chief Casey stated yesterday that if the negotiations for the exchange of properties are carried through, the station will house a 60 foot hook and ladder, a hose wagon, and a pump engine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGE OF LAND IS CONTEMPLATED | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

Alarums and an excursion of hook-and-ladder details lifted from their desks several hundred inmates of the Harvard Inns of Court early yesterday evening when a holocaust was reported in the new Langdell Hall addition. The firemen, upon forcing an entrance to the rooms under construction, discovered pots of fire suspended from the ceiling under a newly applied surface of plaster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE, FIRE, FALSE ALARM IS CRY AT DUSK NEAR LANGDELL | 11/22/1928 | See Source »

...many times that Heywood Broun said it should be given frequent change of title, such as The Ladder of August 24, The Ladder of August 27, 5:30 p. m., after the manner of Scandals of 1924, Follies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Ladder & Scandals | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...play called The Ladder opened in Boston this week. It closed in Manhattan last sennight, having run 107 weeks, costing its "angel," Edgar B. Davis, an estimated 10% of his estimated $15,000,000 oil fortune. As everyone knows,* the play concerns the theosophical doctrine of reincarnation, to which Millionaire-Angel Davis sincerely, munificently subscribes. It meandered between four theatres, was rewritten many times,† had a period of "revision" during which the public was admitted free. Frequently Millionaire-Angel Davis gave bonuses of $20-gold pieces, paid well the cast, the author, J. Frank Davis (no blood relation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Ladder & Scandals | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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