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...Michael Boak's huge styrofoam-covered set blended the conventional Elizabethan stage with the architectural elements of a large handball court. Though sometimes unwieldy with film and action often uncomfortably high, the starkness works to good advantage especially in half-light. The stage floor is reportedly real cement, and any show with a real cement floor has got to be pretty good, at least as far as I'm concerned...
...Mayer (the Devil's advocate) swept about the stage in a huge blue cape. He was as foxy as a Hollywood villain, as haughty as a Jacobean king. He relished his pronouncements like a small boy relishes his lemon drops. The worst actors stumbled towards self-effacement; Michael Boak (Sanitonella) became no more than an occasional buzz...
...Nevada Assemblyman C. C. Boak, 79, introduced a bill to grant divorces by slot machine. The divorce seeker would punch the machine once a day for 42 days, to establish residence, then insert 200 silver dollars. As the divorce popped out of a slot, colored lights would flash, wheels spin and a jukebox would play America. ¶ Hoping to sell more pretzels during Lent, Alex V. Tisdale, president of the National Pretzel Bakers Institute, explained that the twist was originally supposed to represent arms folded in prayer...
Bulldozers to Beer. The story of Manus' building was typical. Seabees, trained on the Pacific coast for this specific job, landed there six months ago on the heels of the invading Army. Their boss was Commodore James E. Boak, who built the Espiritu Santo cruiser base...
...meeting of the Corporation held recently the Bayard Cutting Fellowship for 1912-1913 was awarded to A. E. R. Boak 2G., of Vancouver, B. C. In 1910 a number of persons gave jointly the sum of $25,000 to endow a fellowship in memory of the late William Bayard Cutting, Jr., '00, of New York, N. Y. The income is $1,150, and the incumbent is to be appointed by the President and Fellows, on the nomination of the department in which the student is working, or with which he is affiliated...