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Feb 15, 2012 - 3:21 AM
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By: |
manderley
(Member)
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"Ten-Twenty-Thirty" or, often, "Ten-Twent-Thirt" Cheap, melodramatic theatrical entertainment.....or a theater or touring group presenting this kind of entertainment, probably so-called because of the cheap prices of seats at ten cents, twenty cents, or thirty cents. When I was attending UCLA in the late '50s-early '60s, one of my instructors was the famous female editor/director Dorothy Arzner, whose primary career was from the early 1920s to the early 1940s. She would occasionally use this term to negatively describe cheap melodramatic films of the 1920s-early 1930s. After I heard her use it several times I had to ask her what it meant; Even by that late date, I'd never heard it anywhere before.
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