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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tryouts will be held today and tomorrow by the Dramatic Club to select actors for the spring production of "The Late Christopher Bean," by the Wellesley Barnswallows. The men chosen in these trials will appear in the male roles of this play at Alumnae Theatre on April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Barnswallow Tryouts for Wellesley | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...makes On the Avenue fun is not the antics of this troubled triangle, but the half-dozen high-spots sprinkled through the picture, usually with excellent accompanying melodies by Irving Berlin. Samples: Dick Powell hunting for The Girl on the Police Gazette, Madeleine Carroll and Dick Powell chivying a bean-wagon proprietor (Billy Gilbert), Alice Faye's deliciously cool contralto singing This Year's Kisses. Best moments of all, however, are contributed by the insane Ritz Brothers, who put on three zany acts: 1) The Arctic Explorers; 2) The Russian Band; and 3) The Lonely Professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: On the Avenue | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...trials 14 other men were retained for participation in the winter program of the Debating Council. They were: Jay W. Kaufmann '38, Hubert R. Nexon '38, F. Welch Peel Jr. '39, Anthony P. Alfino '38, Joseph P. Bealey '38, Norman R. Brieson '39, Rendigs T. Fels '39, Robert W. Bean '39, Vincent J. Rosal '37, Donald MeDonald '39, William W. Bancock '38, Lawrence F. Ebb'39, Richard A.Solomon '39, and Richard W. Sullivan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Will Meet Boston University on Station WCOP | 2/9/1937 | See Source »

Captured, placed in a glass jar and named Mickey, the singing mouse became the wonder & delight of school and neighborhood. Even newshawks admitted after an audition that it actually sang. When Assistant Director Robert Bean of the Chicago Zoological Park called, it failed to perform. Nonetheless Director Bean, who had heard of singing mice before, offered $150 for it. Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, zoology curator of the Field Museum of Natural History, also said he had heard of singing mice, though he had never seen one. Declared University of Chicago's Dr. Maud Slye, famed cancer experimenter: "I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Singing Mouse | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...mouse, renamed Minnie after examination by Zooman Bean, came a supreme test one evening last week. Up to a microphone in NBC's Chicago studios stepped the master of ceremonies of the NBC Jamboree to announce "the phenomenon of the century . . . the only mouse in the world who actually sings." Into the studio marched the Industrial School's tall, gaunt Manager Oscar Alva Allred, carrying Minnie in a wire-fronted box. Holding the cage before the microphone, Manager Allred poked a small piece of insulated wire through a hole in the box top, tenderly prodded Minnie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Singing Mouse | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

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