Word: bert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Penny Opera (words & music by Bert Brecht & Kurt Weill; John Krimsky $ Gifford Cochran, producers). The pedigree of this tatterdemalion opera bouffe is long and diffuse. From the 200-year-old John Gay libretto, Messrs Brecht & Weill made a modern German adaptation. It became a cinema and an operetta called Die Dreigroschenoper. These played about the European capitals with marked success. Then Messrs Krimsky & Cochran anglicized the operetta, first naming their production The Beggar's Opera, then The Three-Pence Opera, then The 3-Penny Opera...
From a list of nearly 30 candidates for the Freshman crew Coach Bert Haines has now picked 27 men, from whose number the final Freshman boat will be selected. At the present time these Freshman oarsmen are divided into three temporary crews, and no definite assignment to the Freshman number one boat will be made until after the Spring Vacation...
...definite Freshman crews have been picked yet, and Coach Bert Haines said yesterday that he did not expect to change the present seating arrangements for at least a week. Since the beginning of spring rowing the Freshman boats have been picked solely to suit the schedules of the oarsmen...
...Room, 55 men reported to Coach Whiteside as candidates for the Varsity crew. The turnout was the smallest in several years, but more carsmen are expected to report during the next few weeks, and after the close of the winter sports seasons. Seventy-five men reported to Freshman Coach Bert Haines at the Union in the evening...
...things they drink. My, what terrible stuff it is. Why, say, one of them came home one morning when I was in tidying up and he offered me a drink; he was that drunk. Well I couldn't refuse, and so, well, that stuff was worse than what Bert, he's my husband, what Bert brings home and you don't know what Bert, brings...