Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land postulates that a boss loves his workers for what he can get out of them, and that they need protection from his exploitation, George F. was distinctly on the spot last week. The Endicott Board of Trade (chamber of commerce) recently announced that since the Wagner Act forbids beloved George F. to speak up against brewing unionism, the businessmen who depend on E. J. pay rolls were going to speak up in his stead. The Board of Trade advised 18,500 E. J. workers to stay out of an A. F. of L. union which was trying to start...
...Sunday night in January 1935 a one-act play about a taxi strike had its premiere in a shabby downtown Manhattan theatre. At its conclusion, a Left Wing audience put on the kind of demonstration that What Price Glory? had known, uptown, ten years before. The play was Waiting for Lefty, by Clifford Odets. Two months later. Lefty was running full blast in one Broadway theatre, Odets' Awake and Sing! in another, and critics were writing elaborate Sunday articles about the author. The Left theatre had become an exciting reality for people in no wise Left-minded, and when...
...Rocket to the Moon is full of clashing moods, windy flights, people half-real, half-symbolic. At moments the over-intense young girl and the too-sinister old man all but tumble into the whacky farce world of a You Can't Take It With You. The last act wobbles all over the place. This is not miscalculation on Odets' part. It springs from a pretentious-side of him that wants to make every common dentist's office widen out into the universe. Sometimes he mistakes abracadabra for revelation...
...Harvard Ski team was in the Harvard Coop booth at the Winter Sports Show last night. He started skiing in 1921 and turned professional when in college at Grenable, France, in 1920; taught in Italy and in Denver at the Colorado-Arlberg Ski Club. Cox intends to act as a part time coach of the Harvard team this winter...
...Giant's Stair (Thurs. 10 p. m. CBS). Columbia Workshop presents Charles R. Jackson's radio adaptation of Wilbur Daniel Steele's one-act play...