Word: ems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Earth. The second production by the young insurgents (TIME, March 14) at the 52nd Street Theatre is more conventional in stage mechanics, though thoroughly "arty" in its choice of subject-the Southern U. S. Negro. Author Em Jo Basshe is by birth Russian, which is merely incidental to the fact that he has not lived long among the blacks. Therefore, it is not strange that his main character, a woman who is torn between voodoo magic and hysterical Christianity, distracted by the death of her six children, driven finally to loud rebellion against all the Powers of Destiny, should represent...
Interviewed on the subject of his remarkable rise. Patrolman Terhune had the following to say. "I attribute my recent elevation on the force to persistent attention to duty and in no small part to taking no back talk from motorists. I stand up here and scowl at 'em and the best of 'em go by in silence." Just then he became aware of violent horn tooting, and blowing his whistle released the jam which had developed during the conversation. Amid stately sweeps of the hand the cars sped past leaving the isolated bluecoat marooned on his roost...
Lcud Speaker. The New Play-wrights-John Dos Passos, John Howard Lawson, Francis Faragoh., Michael Gold, Em Jo Basshe-impatient with the restraint of conventional theatre, have set up one of their own, bolstered up by the generous purse of Otto Hermann Kahn. Here, at old Bim's, now the 52nd Street Theatre, they propose to experiment with those radical dramatic forms of whose marketability the commercial producers are suspicious...
There were two large reclining figures, each on a huge base. "These was once together, 'Day and Night' or something'. Well, we had to cut them apart and spoil the story. I wonder how they ever got 'em in over there to begin with. Then, take this, its a bowler, or a walter heavin' dishes, I don't now." He pointed to the Discobulus with a slight welt on its chest...
...weak when I come out. But I go and pray to Jesus and get all charged up like a battery." Thus spoke alluring Aimee Semple McPherson in Manhattan last week when she began her conquest of sin there. Said an oldtimer: "I've heard 'em all ... She's the only one of the lot can touch Henry Ward Beecher...