Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polished up a short speech, broadcast it that night to the postponed national Jackson Day dinners of the Democrats. The most unpolitical Jackson Day address in history, the speech was a homely little essay on national unity. Said the President: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am sitting in the little cabin of the little ship Potomac, in the harbor of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after a day of sunshine out in the Gulf Stream. ... In Washington, as you know, the working day of the Presidency in these times averages about 15 hours. . . . But at sea the radio messages and the occasional pouch...
First it was "Panama Hattic," then "Lady in the Dark" and now it is "Cabin in the Sky", first it was Ethel Merman, the Gertrude Lawrence and now it is Ethel Waters. With these Big Three Boston will be able to look back upon one of its best seasons of musical stage. And with "Cabin in the Sky" alone, the year wouldn't be exactly dull. Albert Lewis and Vinton Freedley have blown into Beantown a breath from the South, a pageant-like play of dusky dancing, spiritualistic singing and vivid settings, which has left critics winded right and left...
...course, with Ethel Waters in there to roll the orbs, flash ivory and vibrate the larnyx, it is hard to see how any production could fail to ring the chimes. When she, as the religious and patient Petunia, sings Vernon Duke's "Taking a Chance On Love" and "Cabin in the Sky," life is a different thing. But even she is unable to steal the whole show. Rex Ingrain, whose face and voice will be most recently remembered as that of the Genii in "The Thief of Bagdad," is about as devilishly good as Lucifer, Jr. could...
...difficult to say enough about "Cabin in the Sky." And whatever you say, you can't recapture in words the magic of appeal, the imaginative realism of its political journeys to the evangelist's dire threat of Hell and glowing promise of the Pearly Gates. It may be that it has succeeded in finding the spirit of the Negro more truly than ever before; if it is has at all fallen short of this ideal, it suffers none as pure entertainment. It's worth pawing your roommate's dress clothes and flunking an hour exam to see "Cabin...
Entries for the race must be made at Leavitt and Peirce's by 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. Ski Club members should make reservations for the Cabin immediately...