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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were last week's battle cries in the Republican national campaign as it crept into its final month. All G. 0. Partisans were saying approximately the same thing: "Hoover saved the country from wrack and ruin; give him a chance to finish the job." Such a defensive drive was difficult to make because the electorate, battered by hard times, seemed in no mood to be sweetly reasoned out of its grouch against the Administration. Most Republican managers, despite their required official optimism, admitted off the record that the party had on its hands an ominous, perhaps hopeless fight...
...With a Load of Mischief," the American Theatre Society's present offering at the Plymouth Theatre, finds Jane Cowl rather desperately alone in an undeniably difficult play. "The Road to Rome" had set her completely at case; members of the audience went away believing that some of her lines had been spoken extemporaneously; and in Margaret Ayer Barnes' "Jenny," she had the excellent support of Sir Guy Standing. "The Man With a Load of Mischief," however, is neither facile, nor Miss Cowl's supporting players deft. The result is a case of under-playing. Like a tennis player that...
...Evensen; come together in a deserted country inn. Here, in the character and psychology of each, the audience witnesses the clash of the two philosophies of equality and nobility, modified by the individual class and age. It is a brilliant thought, the depicting of this struggle, but perhaps too difficult for a play that is to be acted rather than read. It gives the actors few opportunities for easily won applause. Despite the many curtain calls, the company now at the Plymouth cannot be said to have realized the possibilities of "The Man With a Load of Mischief" in anything...
...rentals is to be taken up very shortly when the house-masters have their next meeting, within a week. It is to be expected that the masters will take definite steps towards reapportioning the prices of various rooms. It goes without saying that high rentals do make it difficult for the masters to admit to their houses the men whom they really need to obtain a representative resident body. From the point of view of the student, the competition for the cheaper rooms may of itself rule him out of consideration. It may well be that it is impossible...
...approached its subject from many an angle. The domestic economy angle appeared in "A Layette for $11.10? Here's How" and "The Budget Nursery." A child specialist outlined 24 ideal hours in a baby's life and Assistant Editrix Dal! replied across the page with a report of how difficult she found carrying out the specialist's routine. There were five articles by laymen and physicians on obstetrics and pediatrics. A typical Macfaddle was to be found in a True Story entitled "I Became A Mother at 42?The simple story of a, woman who experienced the great adventure after...