Word: croppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Complicating the situation was Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain's ambition to succeed Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister. Chances for this would be bettered if Sir Samuel Hoare came a cropper, for he was then Mr. Chamberlain's chief rival to be future occupant of No. 10 Downing St. Something had to be decided quickly and Chancellor Chamberlain's respected halfbrother, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Knight of the Garter and Nobel Peace Prizeman, was zealous in telling the befuddled Stanley Baldwin what a dirty, dirty deal the whole thing really was. In an amazing House of Commons...
...while the play is meant to be a portrait of the share-cropper's life in the poor worn out agricultural South, the author, Jack Kirkland, has written a play, that, with some few changes in the denomination of the money mentioned, might as well have been set in a good second-rate apartment hotel on Park Avenue. In this sense, indeed, it is a universal work, and while he should have been casting the spell of poverty and misery, he lets his love of dialogue run away from him, and the momentary humor of back talk of somewhat Chick...
...Hull, as the share cropper beset with family troubles and besieged by starvation, who would rather work than borrow, if work on credit he can, who would rather borrow than steal, and who would sooner steal than leave the land on which he was raised and of which he feels himself an integral part, is superb. There is a certain gallantry in his self-willed squalor that remains as one of the abiding impressions of the play. His supporting cast is excellent, and as a team, they manage to pull the very best possible from the script. On the whole...
...satire was Editor McGuire's big idea. On newsstands went 41,000 copies of a glossy new 35? magazine named Ringmaster, The World in Caricature. Vol. I, No. 1 offered the writings of John V. A. Weaver, John R. Tunis, Stanley Walker, the drawings of Peggy Bacon, William Cropper, David Low, Mitchell Siporin...
Having made himself and Producer Hopkins a fortune with narratives concerning this gaudy set in such plays as Holiday (1928), Paris Bound (1927), Hotel Universe (1930), Playwright Barry solemnly resolved henceforth to keep his sacred and profane works separate. First result of this decision was a dramatic cropper two seasons ago when he wrote a pious work about some Boston Catholics called The Joyous Season. Taking a reef in his belt, Playwright Barry revealed last winter that, simply to make money enough for Producer Hopkins to present his forthcoming ballet, he was about to turn out Bright Star, which...