Word: brocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murals by the theater's top scene designers-Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager, Raoul Pène du Bois, Gertrude Lawrence, Eddie Cantor, the dancing De Marcos, the Quiz Kids with Tallulah Bankhead as Quizmaster, are part of the endless floor show. The food is good, and Producer Brock Pemberton, Novelist Carl Van Vechten, Actor Sam Jaffe are among the busboys. And the whole thing is free...
...Brock Pemberton, Broadway producer, hoped aloud that critics would accept his plan to keep the theater alive in wartime. The plan: let producers tell critics when they are about to produce a show of no merit, and let the critics stay away and shut...
From Ankara, New York Times Correspondent Ray Brock cabled that, on the day when Germany attacked Russia, Germany's wily Ambassador to Turkey Franz von Papen had proposed to the British Ambassador that Britain stop fighting and join Germany against the Soviet Union. Last week from Ankara came word that Herr von Papen and friends were still plugging peace hard, through U.S. and other middlemen...
...Brock hadn't thought much about sketching in Cairo; but he reported last week from Budapest that the more he talked with talkative German soldiers the more certain he was that the Nazi machine would aim point-blank at Cairo and the Suez Canal very soon. Making the most of his talent for getting around, Correspondent Brock pieced together the following agenda: By the end of this week the Nazis intended to bulldoze Turkey into permitting the passage of German troops and equipment, lending air bases to the Luftwaffe, placing roads, railroads and wires at complete disposal...
...young lieutenant, who sported the Iron Cross as reward for having been the first German officer to reach Sarajevo, told Correspondent Brock: "We shall be in Cairo in July. Before the middle. We're sure...