Word: centralization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significantly the Sung-Kazuki "verbal truce" as it was called, came just as the Nanking censor passed this Associated Press dispatch: "A survey of trustworthy information today indicated that the Chinese Central Government was making no real military dispositions to fight Japan in North China...
...most of the year Central City is a scraggly little Colorado mining town (pop. 572) asleep in the memory of an ancient glamor. But for two or three weeks in the summer it is crowded with well-dressed visitors, most of them having a fine time and many of them tipsy. Last week the town was crowded and the focus of festivity was the Central City Opera House...
...play about Nora Helmer, a pampered, naive little wife who commits forgery to get money when her husband is sick, gets such a taste of the world that she leaves home to find out what life is really like. This play, A Doll's House, was presented in Central City's old theatre last week. Nora Helmer was played by sly, small Comedienne Ruth Gordon, who scored a huge personal success last year in a revival of William Wycherley's bawdy classic, The Country Wife. Sam Jaffe played the blackmailer, Nils Krogstad; Walter Slezak was the husband...
...Colorado ranch, and a host of other socialites. There was so much alcoholic garrulity in the packed house that the first two acts were hardly audible, but the audience calmed down during the third act and erupted in thunderous acclaim at the final curtain. The play will run at Central City for three weeks. Producer Harris is pointing it for Manhattan this autumn, believes he has a smash...
...Austria's music festival in Salzburg (see p. 37), the main performance is not the whole show at Central City. There are saloons and gambling halls with oldtime atmosphere and Sheila Barrett doing impersonations in a nightclub. On the schedule this year are trips through the gold mines, a hose-cart race by the volunteer fire department, a rock-drilling contest for Colorado miners...