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  • a farcical account of a "Theatrical Campaign" by Dick Buckram (Vol. I, p. 222), but the first magazine in America that attempted to take the theatre for its province was the _Theatrical Censor_, By a Citizen, first published in Philadelphia, December 9, 1805, and continued until

    The Philadelphia Magazines and their Contributors 1741-1850 Albert Henry Smyth 1885

  • "Theatrical" is a code word the show's judges have used over the years to imply something sounded a little, well, gay.

    Spinner Joshua Ostroff 2010

  • However, the PGA actually chose the better picture and awarded The Hurt Locker with the “Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures.”

    HURT LOCKER Pulls Major Upset Over AVATAR at the Producers Guild Awards – Collider.com 2010

  • Featuring fine food and top entertainers on its elevated stage, the Theatrical was a favorite stop for visiting celebrities such as Eddy Duchin, Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, and Jimmy Durante.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Featuring fine food and top entertainers on its elevated stage, the Theatrical was a favorite stop for visiting celebrities such as Eddy Duchin, Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, and Jimmy Durante.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Featuring fine food and top entertainers on its elevated stage, the Theatrical was a favorite stop for visiting celebrities such as Eddy Duchin, Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, and Jimmy Durante.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • Featuring fine food and top entertainers on its elevated stage, the Theatrical was a favorite stop for visiting celebrities such as Eddy Duchin, Frank Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, and Jimmy Durante.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • A far less well-known fact is that the second prize, securing a fortnight's run at the New End in Hampstead, went to a show called Theatrical Digs.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • No doubt when I do finally reproduce I will end up with girls who will gang up on me aided and abetted by their mother* that or a son who is both "Theatrical" and sensitive, god likes a laugh.

    Day Off Newmania 2007

  • Dogget was so immovable in his Opinion of whatever he thought was right or wrong, that he could never be easy under any kind of Theatrical Government, and was generally so warm in pursuit of his Interest that he often out-ran it; I remember him three times, for some Years, unemploy'd in any Theatre, from his not being able to bear, in common with others, the disagreeable Accidents that in such Societies are unavoidable.

    An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

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