Word: allowables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guts" of Prohibition is one place to which potent Dry Senators and Congressmen do not want to see the Commission go. But Commissioner Mackintosh, a Dry himself, did not propose to allow his colleagues to weasel on "enforcement" and pass up the larger issue of the enforceability of the 18th Amendment. Drys last week cried out in sharp protest against any such thoroughgoing program of investigation as he advocated...
...growing anti prohibition sentiment along the North Atlantic seaboard. In New York, former Attorney General Tuffle has been nominated by the Republicans to run for governor on a repeal platform, while Democratic Governor Roosevelt has finally felt that wet sentiment was more than strong enough among is constituents to allow him to come out flatly for the repeal of the 18th Amendment, although he felt constrained to evade the liquor issue when he first ran for governor...
...Floor Above" live David Kennard (Ivor Novello) & wife (Benita Hume). Their story: While working on a symphony, David goes blind. His wife's suitor subsidizes the family, allows David to believe that his symphony has won a $10,000 competition. David finds out the truth, imagines that his wife is unfaithful, dismisses her. When she returns he will not allow her to sacrifice herself for him, pretends that he has regained his sight. The deception is unsuccessful, however, and Mr. & Mrs. Kennard are last seen at the piano, where he is playing her a little love ditty...
...assuaging him, his physician sagely conceives the plan of facing him with the sergeant, letting Lodar blast away at him with a revolver loaded with blanks. This cures Lodar, rings down the curtain on a spotty, boresome play. Audiences wondered what ever persuaded Producer George M. Cohan to allow the piece to appear under his auspices...
...Drama has planned an experimental production program of four plays for the coming year. The School is remodelling the Rogers Building, which has served in turn as gymnasium, and Germanic Museum, and will utilize the peculiar physical characteristics of the building in providing for a curtainless stage which will allow for a very flexible type of production, using a minimum amount of scenery and depending on lighting to a large extent for effects...