Word: boye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season produced no first-rate comedy, and, though its biggest guns were all on the serious side, no important play with social significance. (Of Mice and Men and Golden Boy had social material, but no major social theme.) But social significance ran away with the musical field, providing a tense, pounding strike drama in The Cradle Will Rock, a fresh, spirited revue in Pins and Needles. Best of the straight musicals: Hooray for What!, thanks to the clowning of Ed Wynn, the music of Harold Arlen...
...Italian basso of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House is long-legged, sardonic Ezio Pinza. Last week, as Basso Pinza was plowing through a concert in Corpus Christi, Tex., he noticed that a small boy in the front row was waggling his foot...
Basso Pinza stopped singing. "Little boy," he said, "stop waggling your foot." "Who, me?" said the urchin. "Yes, you," said Basso Pinza, waggling his own foot. "Please don't waggle your foot this way; it interferes with my tempo." The concert went...
...veteran Boy Scout leader and Cambridge School Committee members stressed the need for organized play and for trained sociologists and psychiatrists in preventing crime and juvenile delinquency...
After Founder Funk died in 1912, the Digest became largely the creation of Robert Joseph Cuddihy, who was first employed by Funk & Wagnalls in 1878 as a 16-year-old office boy. He eventually came to own 60% of the company's stock. Retiring, kindly, generous Publisher Cuddihy used his magazine to collect some $10,000,000 for Belgian and Near East relief during and after the World War. In the ten years following the War, the Digest achieved its greatest period of power and prestige...