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Chapter 6 - Play Going - (Found June 29, 2008 )

BUT I must remember that my title is Playgoing and not Playacting, and that after all the play's the thing to catch the conscience of your playgoer, be he dramatic critic or the simple fellow who goes to the theatre to rid himself of the Stock Exchange.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/theatre-6.shtml

Irving Berlin - The Birth Of The Blues - (Found June 29, 2008 )

HE has a name that will live forever and he bought it for a song. IRVING BERLIN.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-14.shtml

Owen Davis - Curse You-Jack Dalton! - (Found June 29, 2008 )

SOME people write one play and then are never heard from again. But this fellow's inexhaustible. OWEN DAVIS.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-15.shtml

Helen Westley - Believe It Or Not - (Found June 29, 2008 )

THERE'S always a woman in the case. And the Theatre Guild has HELEN WESTLEY.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-16.shtml

Elmer L. Rice - Elmer The Great - (Found June 29, 2008 )

THE 1929 Pulitzer prize play winner: ELMER L. RICE. He was born September 28, 1892. The locale: Madison Avenue near 106th Street. Until he was twenty-six he lived within a radius of two miles of his birthplace.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-17.shtml

Eddie Cantor - From Gags To Riches - (Found June 29, 2008 )

His name isn't Eddie and it isn't Cantor. It's Izzy Iskowitch.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-18.shtml

John Golden - Pure As The Driven Snow - (Found June 29, 2008 )

He's the only man who produces clean sex plays. Yet he always manages to give the public what it wants. A shrewd showman, he realizes the value of publicity.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-19.shtml

Paul Whiteman - A Leader Among Men - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Let the most important fact come first. He weighs 248 pounds. He once studied to be a mechanical engineer.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/times-square-tinetypes-20.shtml

Chapter 5 - Play Going - (Found June 29, 2008 )

THE first piece I saw in the theatre was the pantomime of Bluebeard in which Harriet Vernon was Selim, Ramsey Danvers Fatima, and some still lower comedian Sister Anne.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/theatre-5.shtml

Chapter 4 - Play Going - (Found June 29, 2008 )

I WOULD like to say something on the old question as to whether the player who subjugates his part to the romantic splendour of his own personality is as great an actor as the player who can abstract his personality.
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles10/theatre-4.shtml