Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rain, the tale of a conflict between a chippy and the Church on a South Sea island, was the dramatic success of 1922. Its profanity, its treatment of the problem of "sex-starvation," its revelations on the Freudian significance of dreams about "the mountains of Nebraska" titivated the Harding era. The late Jeanne Eagels played Sadie Thompson, the raffish trollop, up to the hilt, and after the play had run two years on Broadway she was established as one of the U. S. theatre's legendary great...
Despite Belle Livingston, the antiquarian New York hostess of the speakeasy era who copiously advertises her concurrent appearances at a neighboring restaurant--despite Leo Beers and his country singing--the ten or a dozen red- gingham-covered tables which have replaced the first rows in the orchestra--"The Drunkard" is not given the opportunity of becoming the honestly entertaining revival which its well-executed flyer-program clarions...
...brilliant pre-War era belonged Ernestine Schumann-Heink, hardy at 73, broadcasting in Chicago last week for Hoover Vacuum Cleaners and sending flowers to the bewildered Mother Dionne from "Mother Schumann-Heink." Geraldine Farrar, long the high-spirited pet of the Met, has also turned to radio. Sedately she describes the doings on the stage where once she ruled. Mary Garden was resting in Manhattan last week after her Debussy lecture-recitals and a visit to Sing Sing...
...Machiavellian designs. Unquestionably they are much disturbed over the potential dangers to their seacoast towns and cities in the rapid increase in the number of airplanes being constructed in Germany, and their plan for a regional pact for air defense is designed to meet this danger. But in this era of nationalism, no nation can be blamed for a close regard for its own interests...
Sixty-one years ago, when San Francisco was just emerging from the whiskers of the Bret Harte era, enthusiastic citizens dug deep into their pokes to establish the San Francisco Art Association. One of the association's major objects was to "maintain a permanent museum of fine arts." Last week S. F. A. A. held its 55th annual exhibition, and fulfilled its promise. After 61 years the San Francisco Art Museum opened with 14 exhibition galleries and a handsome lady director brought on from Cincinnati...