Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sober, and unfortunately someone sometime must be, "The Drunkard", as here produced, can be an annoying bore. In recreating the music hall atmosphere, the Copley seems to have scoured the streets for all those people whose stock-in-trade is "You said it, sport", and placed them in the balcony. The audience thus takes the cast by storm, its superb banalities so drowning speech on the stage as to make the play seem a pantomine. Too bad, for I recall in a previous performance that the lines of the play were pearls of wit, and trite not at all. This...
...hymns with "Amen." Said the beefy, chuckling Archbishop: "I would plead that we should get out of the evil habit. If the tune is a good one, it comes to an end by itself. To put an 'Amen' afterward is redundant-I think it is rather a bore...
Night flying, more & more popular on U. S. airlines, is a bore. The scenery is blackness, scattered lights, sometimes stars. Not bored, however, were nine passengers on a Washington-Pittsburgh plane of Central Airlines one night last week. Two seats had been removed to install a five-foot-square screen at the cabin's front end. Warner Brothers had provided a cinema projector, two technicians, a specially-made 16-mm. print of Devil Dogs of the Air. The tri-Wasp Ford, ordinarily noisy, had been sound-proofed with rock wool...
...Sanger's father, Michael Hennessy Higgins, was an easygoing, loquacious, free-thinking carver of tombstone saints at Corning, N. Y. He died at 80. Her mother was a tight, aggressive little body who bore eleven children and died at 48. Margaret Higgins, sixth child, was born in 1883, developed tuberculosis from which she recovered only after bearing three children to William Sanger, an architect whom she married in 1900 and divorced in 1921. Now he practices architecture in Albany, N. Y. Of the children, Peggy, the youngest, died when 4 years old. Stuart, 30, Yale '28, once...
From a refrigerated crypt in Pasadena, Calif., undertakers removed the frozen body of William Wrigley Jr., found it unchanged in appearance since they put it there three years ago. An ambulance sped it to the S. S. Catalina which bore it out to Santa Catalina Island. Near the town of Avalon an obelisk-topped mausoleum has been two years building. There William Wrigley Jr. was finally buried...