Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan last week there arrived a great actor, Alexander Moissi (Moy-see). The day after his arrival, he began to act in Max Reinhardt's production of Redemption, as produced by Morris Gest...
...between times, a Publix melange of girls and nonsense titled "Bubbles" beguiles the audience. The girls, however, slip up in their routine dances now and then, one of them actually took a heavy fall, and the song and patter men act somewhat nonplussed at being on the big time: Fannie Brice, America's leading comedienne (don't ask which direction) dashes on for 15 minutes and completes the bill in a manner inconvenient to describe...
...record, a Republican Legislature began at once to prepare embarrassing features. The chief plan was to pass a State prohibition act, like the one Governor Smith got repealed, and dare Governor Roosevelt to veto it. That, they thought, would ruin him as a presidential possibility if by other bedevilments they could not prevent his re-election...
Beginning Sunday, Nov. 18, lasting a week, musical, educational, civic organizations all over the U. S. will commemorate the anniversary of the death of Schubert. More than a year ago the Columbia Phonograph Co. started an international campaign, persuaded Otto Hermann Kahn to act as chairman. Since then 100,000 schools have been enlisted, 59,000 churches, 5,700 libraries, 1,315 Chambers of Commerce, 350 art societies, more than 100 industries. "Back to Melody" programs will be given in churches, schools, concert halls, over the radio in memory of one Franz Schubert who died in Vienna...
...stage show this week is the best in a long, long time. There is an excellent acrobatic act, a jazz fiddler and various other things which make up in part at least for the suffering endured at the expense of past Publix stage productions...