It's the bee's knee's in roaring 1920's Cambridge, Massachusetts, as the Marshall Sisters work for social justice by solving cases involving suffragists, civil rights advocates, labor organizers, mediums, bootleggers, secret society members, movie directors, journalists, and vaudeville impresarios!
Case 14 in the Casebook of the Marshall Sisters Detective Agency performed November 16 2024 at CCTV Cambridge. It's 1929 in Cambridge, MA, and once again the Marshall sisters are in the middle of a mystery… Why has Mrs. Meyers reopened her Scenic Temple Vaudeville Theater? What is causing Queenie's “Refined Ladies Tea Shoppe” Speakeasy to have less customers? And why are dueling Hollywood talkie directors STILL lurking about shooting “reality” films?
June 11, 2022 performance of this original mystery play by Siobhan Bredin - Episode 12 in The Casebook of the Marshall Sisters Detective Agency. It's 1929 in Cambridge, MA, and government cryptologists have once again determined that a local speakeasy is importing and selling bootlegged liquor!!! • Will the Marshall Sisters be able to prevent their friend Queenie from going to the hoosegow? • How will they deal with a shocking secret from their family's past? • And what has happened to their resident mystic?
It's 1929 in Cambridge, MA, and, as usual, lots is happening! . . . Why has the Queen of the Bootleggers returned from Hollywood in the wake of her smash hit talkie? . . . Why is ground-breaking codebreaker, Elizebeth Smith Friedman, hiring the Marshall Sisters Agency? . . . Will Adina White, local Afro-American artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, be featured in Dorothy Arzner's next talkie?
It's 1927 and Cambridge is home to the world's largest candy factory, but...under the sugary delights, mystery lurks! Can sister detectives, Alice and Louise Marshall, solve the mysterious disappearance of factory labor organizer, Ann McAllister, by smashing music boxes?
It's the bee's knees in 1920's Cambridge, MA in Case #10 in The Casebook of the Marshall Sisters Detective Agency, as our heroines track down mysterious threats to the local radio station owner, learn more about social justice activists and Cambridge residents who helped to found the NAACP, and create a time capsule to celebrate the contributions of Cambridge women to the suffrage movement.
Case 9 in the Marshall Sisters Detective Agency Casebook. It's 1929 and broadcast radio has come to Cambridge! . . . What shocking secrets about the women’s suffrage movement will be revealed? . . . Who will return from beyond the veil through Madame Mystica? . . . Why are Hollywood directors hanging around capturing reality-based action scenes?
Who is destroying the public murals funded by FDR to raise morale during The Great Depression? • Can sister detectives Alice and Louise get to the bottom of the sabotage and save these works of art for the people?
BOSTON, MA 1919 . . . . . . . . • Is self-proclaimed medium Madame Veretsky helping those who have lost loved ones in World War I OR...preying on sorrowful women to get large fees? • Can our plucky heroines solve this baffling mystery and help their cousin escape the clutches of Mme V?
Cambridge, MA 1929 . . . Mysterious calls coming through the Massive Candy Factory switchboard at 3pm every day . . . . . . A new psychic vaudeville detective agency competing with the Marshall sisters . . . . . . Rival Hollywood directors tripping over each other to film “reality” talking movie scenes . . . Yes, it’s another case for the Marshall Detective Agency!
AUGUST 18, 1920 - With the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. U.S. women finally have the right to vote, but...WHY DID IT TAKE SO LONG? - Join sister detectives Alice and Louise Marshall as they get to the bottom of this mystery by revisiting events - and suspects - from years past.
Cambridge 1928 and the Oddfellows Hall in Central Square is host to strange occurences! - High above Central Square, otherworldly beings are interrupting the Oddfellows' secret ceremonies - Can the Marshall Sisters Detective Agency, assisted by Tommy McAllister and his band of Mass Ave Marauders, solve one of their toughest cases yet?
It’s 1929 and the talkies – movies with sound - have come to Cambridge! . . . Fresh off the success of The Wild Party with Clara Bow, famed Hollywood director Dorothy Arzner is filming at Cambridge’s Scenic Temple Vaudeville Theater. . . . . . But somebody is sabotaging the performances of magicians, ventriloquists, dancers, and mediums. . . . . . Can the Marshall sisters and the intrepid Mass Ave Marauders solve the mystery without having to – gasp! – go undercover in one of the acts?
It’s 1927 and mysterious things are happening at Cambridge’s popular Scenic Temple vaudeville theatre! . . . While audiences enjoy tap dancing, magic shows, acrobats, and comic performances, sinister happenings are occurring backstage. . . . . . Can the Marshall sisters and their intrepid assistant, Tommy McAllister, sleuth out the secrets of this venerable venue? . . . Performed May 9, 2015 at Maude Morgan Community Arts as part of Cambridge Arts Open Studios.
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