Applesauce

Ambassador Theatre / NYC / 1925

Applesauce opened October 28, 1925 and closed in December 12, 1925
at the Ambassador Theatre after 90 performances.

(Actual program measures 5 1/4"x 7 3/4")

- New York Daily News / September 29, 1925 (pg.66) -

from The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism by James Fisher, Felicia Hardison Londré

"APPLESAUCE. This 'Comedy of American Life in Three Acts" by Barry Connors opened at the Ambassador Theatre on 28 Septamber 1925 and ran for 90 performances.
The ingenue Hazel has two beaux: the conventional, hard-working Rollo and the happy-go-lucky Bill, whom her father describes as being full of "applesauce."
In 1920's slang, "apllesauce" meant doublespeak, hyperbole, flattery. Ultimately, Hazel finds a precarious happiness with Bill.

- New York Daily News / October 28, 1925 (pg.116) -                 - New York Daily News / October 22, 1925 (pg.23) -

- New York Daily News / December 7, 1925 (pg.25) -

- New York Daily News / October 20, 1925 (pg.28) -                                         - New York Daily News / (standard daily ad) -                                        - New York Daily News / October 31, 1925 (pg.22) -

- New York Daily News / December 8, 1925 (pg.154) -                                         - New York Daily News / December 12, 1925 (pg. 50) -                                        - New York Daily News / December 13, 1925 (pg.231) -

Film version, Brides Are Like That, was released in 1936 by Warner Bros.

Key quote (by Dr. Randolph Jenkins):
"Everybody in town says you're full of applesauce."

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