Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first act is an introduction to Grovers Corners and its inhabitants. During the course of it Mr. Craven calls upon a little squirrel of a professor to give the geological history and other recondite data of the town, and also upon a prominent citizen to sketch in the general tenor of the place and to answer the questions of a Communist, a cultural uplift lady, and a W. C. T. U. worker, all scattered through the audience. The second act deals with love and marriage, and the third with death...
...Craven, as the minister who marries the boy and girl lovers, doesn't know whether he approves of marriage or not, but in the last act the events and he become quite philosophical, and he comes forth with some decided views on death. He takes for granted a universal belief in the immortality of the soul, and then he explains that a dozen people, sitting very stiffly in chairs on the stage, are dead people in their graven, waiting for the earthly parts of themselves to pass away, and for the great metamorphosis into their eternal forms to overtake them...
Kenneth Taylor, ex-commissioner of the State Labor Relations Act and secretary of the State Federation of Labor, will speak at the rally Friday night...
Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" in the hands of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre, has been stripped of its superstitious characters and less significant scenes, act on a huge bare stage with several platforms and an immense vertical rectangle, and had its antique continues changed for grim modern civilian suits and Fascist uniforms. Thereby after the first few moments of apparent incongruity have passed, it is a stark, harrowing picture of mob passion and dictatorship...
...such was the Conference's purpose President Roosevelt will soon be invited to apply the U. S. Neutrality Act. More important from the Japanese standpoint, it would permit Japan to carry her unofficial blockade of the Chinese Coast to the point of searching neutral ships for contraband...