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...January 1728, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, "most successful piece ever produced on the English stage," was performed for the first time, in London. On its 205th birthday, The Beggar's Opera was performed in Manhattan last week in a French cinema version called L'Opéra de Quat' Sons, with music by German Composer Kurt Weill, Victorian settings. Last week's showing of L'Opéra de Quat' Sous was interesting for other than sentimental reasons. Famed George Wilhelm Pabst who directed it also made a German...
...Georgian restaurant or the University dining halls. Detroiters may buy in the downtown stores tokens designed for sidewalk charity, worth a cent each at the "Penny Cafeteria," but honored as currency nowhere else. Thus the casual passerby is assured that the object of his generosity is not a beggar controlled by a racket, and that he gets something better for his money than needled beer. It is not an ideal plan, but these are not ideal times, and the system excludes most of the evils of panhandling...
...idea of "Thirteen Women," which crime club addicts remember as the grisly melodrama of Frauenzimmer from a sorority who were all condemned to die mysteriously one after the other. This ingenious device is applied to five gentlemen traveling in Morocco, who impolitely resist the demands of an old beggar for baksheesh, and are therefore cursed with a fate which shall overtake them in order before the next phase of the moon. But the logical French mind can allow no such supernatural fakirs to succeed. One man dies, a newspaper reports the death of another, but that grinning grim reaper...
...Manhattan William Bound, seaman, said "No" to a beggar. Police later found Seaman Bound lying on the sidewalk with stab wounds in chest, arm and shoulder...
...Gateless Barrier. His first two productions. Merry Andrew and Maggie, The Magnificent, were both failures, though not expensive ones. Then came a fortunate meeting. A mutual friend introduced Producer Stebbins and Marc Connelly, onetime newspaper man and co-author with George S. Kaufman of several successful plays (Beggar on Horseback, Dulcy, Merton of the Movies). Writer Connelly was trying to sell a play he had written around some Negro stories by Roark Bradford. Producer Stebbins read it, liked it, bought it and produced it forthwith under the name The Green Pastures. Directed by the author, the play opened in February...