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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoa, there! Wait a minute! What's this about the Noel Coward doings being the "first smash hit of a middling season" [TIME, Dec. 7]? What about Stage Door! What about Tovarich! I'll grant that the season has been even less than middling and the crop of flops has been a bumper one, but since first they opened both of these plays have been complete sellouts. Stage Door has never fallen below $19,500 a week at the Music Box and if that isn't a smash hit my name is Ivan Ivanovitch...
...twins and their wives. Lucio's pneumonia turned out to be rheumatic fever, a virus-caused disease, which attacked his heart, killed him fortnight ago and necessitated the severance of the thick isthmus of flesh & bowel which bound his dead body to hale & hearty Simplicio (TIME Dec...
Complete except for a few scattered games, the football season of 1936 last week wound up in a series of controversies, prizes and suggestions. Main developments: Rose Bowl representative for the Pacific Coast Conference, chosen last fortnight, is the University of Washington (TIME, Dec. 7). Rules of the contest, to be held on New Year's Day at Pasadena, permit the Pacific Coast representative to invite any team it wants as its opponent...
...hosiery manufacturers; of heart disease; in Reading. In 1931 he set up a $1,000,000 Oberlaender Trust to promote German-American good-will by sending U. S. scholars to Germany and Austria. In progress at Berkshire Mills since Oct. 1 has been a strike against "sweatshop" conditions (TIME, Dec. 7). By last week's end 135 picketers, lying flat in slush and snow outside the plant, had been arrested for "blocking the sidewalk...
...free, public lecture on the "Alexander Hamilton Rice Expedition to Brazilian Guyana," will be given by Professor Rice tomorrow evening (Tuesday, Dec. 15) at the Harvard Institute of Geographical Exploration, at 8:45 o'clock...