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It is at this time of year, or any other for that matter, that everyone feels called upon to comment on the tugidity of theatrical Boston. The general concession of opinion seems to be that they do these things much better abroad and that the name doldrums was conceived in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DESERT SONG | 9/24/1927 | See Source »

Boston has created a name for itself by showing extreme reluctancy to allow any musical show, good or bad, to leave town. The name of Jack Donahue would cause a riot where Modjeska and the Barrymores doing card tricks would not even excite a ripple. Small favors should be accepted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DESERT SONG | 9/24/1927 | See Source »

Died. Frederick Skiff Field, 44, son of the late famed poet, Eugene Field, of burns received in an auto accident; at Tomahawk, Wis. Nick- named "Daisy" by his father (who imagined that his son's eyes looked up at him like flowers), Frederick Field never forgot the curious merry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 19, 1927 | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

The Fireman's Band began to play in the afternoon. Old soldiers straddled the backs of their chairs, waved flasks or sandwiches in time to the music, told one another of brave things done long-ago. As the tinny jangle of "There'll Be a Hot Time in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boys of '98 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

In the last scene, the audience sees them together as they appear to audiences on the burlesque circuit, doing a waltz buck while a brazen orchestra shatters her sentiment into cheap, broken rhythms. "Can you make it?" she asks under her breath of her tottering spouse, snapped out of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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