Word: exits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quarrel among the managers. The Shipping Board mounted its rostrum and announced the removal of Admiral Leigh C. Palmer as Chairman of the Emergency Fleet Corporation and the appointment of Elmer E. Crowley of Massachusetts as his successor. Admiral Palmer was offered a subordinate post and declined it. His exit was followed by the exit of a number of his subordinates, some following him out of loyalty, others ousted by the Board "for the sake of efficiency...
...Miss Nichols has written a play of racial conflicts, tied together by every stock device of the theatre, with lines embodying the best Irish-Jewish jokes of the past few--to be charitable--years. There is no element of surprise in plot or in situation, every entrance and every exit is perfectly obvious. There is nothing subtle in the entire piece, but Miss Nichols is not writing for a public that demands subtlety. She should not be reviled by the critics, for she has the true instinct of the showman. She is giving a particular portion of the public what...
...eager, never did get a man and made her exit as a faded Ophelia in the copper-lined bathtub. Tireless, generous Maggie at last gave birth-to a mortal cancer. Victor fended off decrepitude with cold plunges and Lily's listless adulation, but the Wilmington debutantes thought him more and more an old foolish, with his hoary jokes and palsied, piddling gallantry...
...Queen that evening. Shortly before the curtain rang up, their Majesties, accompanied by an ample suite, entered the theatre, occupied three left-hand boxes. They stayed to the end of the performance* joined in the ovation given to Miss Lucille Laverne, who played the leading role, made a quiet exit as the audience was kept at attention by the national anthem...
...King and Queen often leave a performance before it is over in order to avoid being caught in an exit crowd or to avoid causing inconvenience to the audience by requiring them to wait until they have departed...