Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey's New Deal machine. Successively he was a member of the State Recovery Board, of the Regional Labor Board, NRA Compliance Director, State Director of the National Emergency Council and member of the National Industry Recovery Board. He was called in as consultant when the Federal Housing Act was being drafted, named FHA director for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Last week President Roosevelt found a higher post on which Charles Edison might expend his zeal, named him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, a job vacant since the death of Henry Latrobe Roosevelt last February...
...band will hold its annual Band Club banquet at the Union Tuesday evening at 6:30 o'clock. Color movies of the band's performance at one of the games this fall will be shown. Leroy Anderson has been invited to act as toastmaster for the evening...
William W. Austin '39, pianist, will be the featured soloist in a program that includes works by Beethoven, Bach, and Wagner. The complete program follows: Overture to Egmont Beethoven Minuet; Gavotte C.P. Wood Choral Prelude Bach Symphony in G minor, no. 40 Mozart Prelude to Act III, Lohengrin Wagner Plano Group Aufschwung Elfe Nachtstuck Schumann Valso in E Maskowski Soloist-Austin March from Tannhauser Wagner...
...speed with which the Duncan sisters work and the rapidity with which one turn succeeds another give for a while the impression of a fairly snappy review, but the weight of the dialogue bogs it down in the second act, which drags and drags and drags...
Born in New York, Bert Lahr also, started his career in a "kid act", at the age of 16. He graduated to burlesque and vaudeville, and now rates tops in the art of making people laugh. He has acted in several movies, his last feature completed about five years ago. He likes Hollywood, but has no special interest there. His ambition, now, is to retire soon, and watch things whizz by from the sidelines...