Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prisoners out of jail, free its insane. Its air reeked with hidden scandal. Between Governor Bilbo and the Legislature existed a spectacular deadlock to dim the chances of quick political relief. Born in Juniper Grove 53 years ago, a fluent lawyer-politician idolized by Mississippi's swamp folk, Governor Bilbo served his State as Lieutenant Governor (1912-16) and Governor (1916-20). He was elected again in 1928. With a son at West Point, he likes to compare himself to Napoleon. But what he fears most is a Waterloo at the hands of the Mississippi Legislature. When State finances...
Surprised, theatre folk waited to see if Helen Gahagan would be starred in another Belasco play, for tradition dictates that any Belasco leading lady who marries, automatically leaves his service. Examples: Leslie Carter, Blanche Bates, Frances Starr, Katharine Cornell, Mary Ellis, Lenore Ulric...
...songs. Producer Arthur Hammerstein is responsible for many of these songs. "Sympathy" was in his first show, The Firefly (1912). "Something Goes Tingle-ingleing" was in his High Jinks the next year. "The Bubble" was in his Katinka. Because the charm of his productions still lingers, Manhattan show folk and theatre-goers were sorry to hear last week that Producer Hammerstein had gone bankrupt. He listed his liabilities as $1,649,136, his assets $53,083, his cash...
Getting Married. This Theatre Guild revival of George Bernard Shaw's matrimonial polemic is well-staged, well-directed, well-acted. It presents a number of classic theatrical characters?the braggart soldier, the canny servant, the benign prelate, the worldly-wise woman. Worthiest of these folk, of course, are permitted to toss sound Shavian doctrine between themselves like a medicine ball. Mr. Shaw's sensible precept is that marriage is not a completely blessed state, but that there is no better solution for the social problems of men and women to date. His recommendations: more flexible divorce laws, more respect...
...twentieth century world where radios, mass production of clothes and utensils, and the leviathan press threaten to bring uniformity to every continent, some means of preventing the disappearance of unusual and colorful folk customs in welcome. It is certainly rain able to keep alive beautiful languages or arts in any country, and especially so if they are unique...