Word: bakeshop
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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While the orchestra plays appropriate theme songs Sweeney Todd (R. B. Clement '32) pursues his business of murder while Mrs. Lovett (R. T. Frescoln '34), next-door bakeshop proprietress, manufactures tuppenny pies out of the corpses. Mark Ingestrie (W. McM. Heyl '33) is the sailor lad in love with demure Johanna Oakley (C. J. Fleming '33). It is Mark's pearls which arouse the avarice of the Fleet Street razor wielder and finally bring about his apparent demise via his own unholy chair. The Playgoer cannot assay to conduct his readers through the plot of a Victorian melodrama, but they...
...maximum speed of 33 knots an hour and develops a maximum speed of 109,000 horsepower, more than three times as much as our latest battleships. It carries 52 officers and 720 men in the crew. Food is cooked by means of an oil range and the bakeshop are heated by electricity...