Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast: Porgy Frank Wilson Bess Evelyn Ellis Crown Jack Carter Sporting Life Percy Verwayne Maria Georgette Harvey Serena Rose McClendon...
...acting is uniformly good: the temptation to overdo almost never prevails. Frank Wilson as Porgy and Evelyn Ellis as Bess are perhaps outstanding, and the whole cast has sufficient vigor to carry the audience through even the slow first-night scene changing. But that technical matter was a very minor drag on the otherwise complete appeal of the play...
...important part of the Hoover and MacDonald attitude lies in the fact that each is eager to find a solution to the problem, and that in approaching it is this frank and informal way they are going far to create what Ramsay MacDonald so well stated was necessary to gain physical disarmament, namely, moral disarmament...
...Frank were the operators in opening their ledgers, potent were their pleas. Mr. Glover, acting for Mr. Brown, was not obdurate. A compromise on rates seemed certain to result...
...appointing an ambassador, it is customary for the State Department to select a candidate who is persona grata to the government of the country concerned. When, last week, the U. S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Manhattan's Harry Frank Guggenheim as Ambassador to Cuba, the question of acceptability was quite ideally met. Mr. Guggenheim is well acquainted with Cuban problems. Cuban people. But there were more than personal reasons for his appointment having been welcome to "El Gallo" (The Rooster). President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba. For the very fact that Mr. Guggenheim and not a more...