Word: bartons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minneapolis, moon-faced Merle Potter, dramatic critic of the Times-Tribune, went to review Tobacco Road, came away fuming. Next morning he blasted Actor John Barton across the Mississippi for turning dirty, hungry Jeeter Lester into an "obscene clown," the theatre into a bawditorium...
...Actor Barton then spat right back in Potter's eye: "If you think you're so good and know just how this role of Jeeter should be played, why don't you come up and play it yourself? Try just three minutes of it if you don't want to go to the trouble of learning the entire part...
...yellow-belly, Potter accepted-on one condition: Barton must turn critic and review the performance...
Then the curtain went up, and the audience broke into a roar while for three minutes Potter sprawled on a porch and leaned against a pillar, mumbling any spare cusswords he remembered to cover up any regulation dialogue he forgot. After that, Barton took over the part...
Behind all this nationwide activity sat the woman who has made the American Red Cross her lifework, for 35 years its driving force. In 1904 Clara Barton's Red Cross was gallant, revered, but loosely knit and fundless. That was the year the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House said to a young Washington society leader: "You've been appointed to the executive committee of the Red Cross...