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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawrence Schwab presented "Nice Goin'" at the Shubert Monday night. Between yawns, the audience wondered when the highly touted Miss Mary Martin would appear. At last, after two interminable scenes, Miss Martin finally entered, all-shining in a golden gown. She then proceeded to sing a song nobody could understand, and the audience never recovered from the shock...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/25/1939 | See Source »

...shut your eyes, Mr. Dixon's voice and tapping is entertaining--but these two score against very mediocre competition. Miss Martin is torrid only when she is coy, but her part herein demands that she be frigid, and hence her occasional attempts at coyness only serve to make her appear ridiculously childish. Furthermore, she has no song suited to either her voice or her personality, and she looks ill and overworked...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/25/1939 | See Source »

...deputy sheriffs routed 200 fashionable guests who were allegedly playing bingo and tango games, seized paraphernalia as evidence, let a pretty brunette go, arrested four men. A florid man named John F. Garrison identified himself as Chancellor of the Consulate, promised to appear in the Culver City justice court at week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Hell for the Duchess | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...time . . . will result in the restoration of Czecho-Slovakia." Last week, Dr. Benes broadcast from London, hoping to be heard by Czechs and Slovaks: "Today the retreat from the tyranny of Naziism is ended! Your place, (Czechoslovak citizen, is today in the front line. . . . The Allied aircraft will often appear over your towns* and will bring you encouragement and assistance. . . . Do not submit!" A Czech Legion of 1,000 to fight with the Allies was being enlisted in London last week by Jan Masaryk, son of Czecho-Slovakia's late great Founder-President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. Son Masaryk, unlike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Refugees | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...come back when he was reading the morning papers that day," declared a ward mate of Brill's, who has requested that his name be withheld. "He kept muttering 'He shouldn't be allowed in Boston,' after he had seen a notice that J. P. Marquand was to appear at the Book Fair of the Boston Herald-Traveler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Steals Out of Stillman to Stymie Scribbler | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

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