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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little about the four-point legislative program the President proposed for it last month. Consequently when, at week's end, word arrived at the Miami base where Secretary Marvin Mclntyre was in charge, that the President had decided to come ashore a day earlier than originally planned, go direct to Washington instead of stopping off at Gainesville and Warm Springs, Ga., political reporters promptly began to draw conclusions. Reason given by the President was that his infected jaw-from which Commander Arthur H. Yando, White House dentist, extracted a diseased molar last fortnight- was not healing rapidly...
...been there, however, she would probably not have been offended by this candid camera record of female Washington. First Lady is an almost exact celluloid reproduction of the play by Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman on which it is based. Its quips are badinage rather than satire, and direct their wit at the immemorial field of petticoat intrigue rather than at any particular person...
...first five weeks, the play lost $3,800. Then audiences' word-of-mouth advertising suddenly began to change all that. Tobacco Road began to pay. Soon Anthony Brown, who had come from balmy Hollywood to direct the play, had saved enough to buy an overcoat. Henry Hull, then playing the part of filthy Jeeter Lester, found he could begin to pay the expenses of his Old Lyme, Conn, estate. After the first year's run, profits were $84,000. When Tobacco Road's second birthday rolled around, Producers Sam Grisman, Jack Kirkland and Anthony Brown threw caution...
Presenting selections ranging from Palestrina to Gilbert and Sullivan, the Glee Club will appear in its annual concert at the Harvard Club of Boston Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. G. Wallace Woodworth '24 will direct...
Purpose of the Conference is, according to the announcement, to give university men a factual knowledge of a problem which "will remain to torment the nation for years to come," and also to supplement this theoretical information by contact with "older men who know the problem from direct experience." The discussions "have a singlehearted aim: to analyze all major policies and see what each entails...