Abie's Irish Rose is still a bad play, I don't think it will last forever.
The late Heywood Broun made this resigned observation in the fifth year (1927) of Abie's staggering Broadway run.* Last week it seemed as if nothing short of an Axis victory could make Broun's prophecy come true.
For Abie's Irish Rose, made over into a serial, was on the radio. It had been on the air 56 times and was going strong. One of the top 20 shows on the U.S. air, it is broadcast coast to coast by 125 stations of...
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