Word: anna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexander Woollcott? "So odd and preposterous a blend of Anna Christie and Elsie Dinsmore that one wonders its rehearsals were not dissolved and abondoned in the astonished laughter of the entire company...
...preposterous blend of Anna Christie and Elsie Dinsmore...
...worry about moving. Texas was on the point of revolution. He attended the Convention of San Felipe in 1835 (where he was elected Commander-in-Chief of the Texan Army), and dominated it with his eloquence. Word came that Santa Anna, the Mexican General, had invested the Alamo. In an hour, Sam Houston was leading a force to relieve the fort; but before he could do so it had fallen and its garrison had been massacred. But he met the Mexican Army at San Jacinto, routed it and took Santa Anna prisoner. Before the captive, Houston took a gnawed...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED-Pauline Lord gives an even better performance than she gave in Anna Christie, as the San Francisco waitress who married an aged Italian farmer by mail...
...tells about the Webers-Rickler, Sarah, Fanny, Golda, Bertha, Esther, Leah, Rae, Rebecca, Flora, Anna, George, Abraham, Solomon, Philip, Max and Joseph, little Joseph. They lived in a shoe on Mott Street, Manhattan. 'Nearby, Lew Schanfield tended a street soda-fountain for a man named Gump. One night. Fields taught Weber a dance step he knew. Another night, the little lights on the facade of a brand-new music hall pricked out a trade-name that had become a tradition: WEBER AND FIELDS. They owned the place...