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Supposedly 'a parallel in tempo to John Gay's 'Beggar's Opera'" (it will be entitled "Beggar's Holiday" during the New York run), the play deals with the insouciant exploits of one Macheath, a lady-killing crook. During the course of the show, Mae holes up at Miss Jenny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/11/1946 | See Source »

Unfair. In Kansas City, Veteran Julian Tierney sued to get back his prewar job: loading crooked dice.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Passionate Pilgrim | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Materialist Vishinsky heard Msgr. Joseph F. Flanelly denounce "impious and rank materialists." After Mass Vishinsky bowed, smiled and warmly clasped the hand of the Most Rev. J. Francis A. Mclntyre. The new Russian line might turn out to be long or short, straight or crooked, but it was surely being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Calculated Conciliation | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Out beyond the crooked little streets of Prague's Male Strana, past the tiny shops of the alchemists in Hrachany, and the towering St. Vitus Cathedral, stands a bleak dormitory, the Massarykovo Kolej. It was here on the 17th of November, 1939, that the Nazis began their bloody massacre of...

Author: By Douglass Cater, | Title: Russian, French, Moslem Students Make Congress Colorful Gathering | 10/9/1946 | See Source »

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