Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...buttonholed his colleagues, one by one, with a grim persistence. He did not have to tell them that his and their old friend Senator Peter Norbeck died eight months ago of cancer. He did not have to remind them that by the time a U. S. citizen reaches the age (30 years) when he is eligible for election to the Senate, he must be wary of cancer. Result of his efforts was that Senator Bone got advance assurance of unanimous Senate approval of his bill to finance a National Cancer Institute...
Yiddish Theatre, Like many other Jews who have reached artistic eminence, Muni developed his art in close contact with his own race. He was born Muni Weisenfreund in a part of Austria which is now Poland in the little town of Lemberg, which he left at the age of one month and has never seen since. His parents were traveling actors who journeyed from one European capital to another, performing in the ghettos. The nomadic life of the Weisenfreunds took them to London, where Muni went to his first school, and later, when Muni was six, to the goal...
...boys of Shakespeare's theatre played women, so the boys of the Yiddish theatre have for centuries played old men. Muni made his stage debut at the age of eleven in Cleveland, as an old man in a sketch called Two Corpses at Breakfast. He took to the stage as naturally as a grocer's son takes to the counter. But his parents had other ambitions for him. To the Jews of that generation any kind of musician was higher in the social scale than an actor. Paul was to be a violinist. He took his lessons dutifully...
Last year when John Hays Hammond died at the age of 81 in an easy chair in his showplace at Gloucester, Mass., he left an estate estimated at $2,500,000, mostly to his four children, Inventor John Hays Jr., Artist Natalie, Composer Richard, Financier Harris. Observing that his own taste for economic adventure ran in the blood of his children, especially in that of Son Harris, Father Hammond protected them by leaving the bulk of their inheritances not outright but in trust funds. It was largely due to this foresight that in a Manhattan court last week Harris Hammond...
Frank Gillmore has not forgotten that night in Manhattan 18 years ago this week. For although he was not to become Actors Equity Association's president until ten years later, that night was Equity's coming of age, and Frank Gillmore was even then Equity's guiding hand. The strike spread to eight hinterland cities, closed 37 houses, kept 16 others from opening, cost producers & actors $3,000,000, lasted 30 days. It was Broadway's one big strike and still is the Theatre's one big Labor milestone. When it was all over Actors...