Word: getting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been charged with accepting a one hundred thousand dollar bribe, and convicted of pandering in Chicago. But the union is not only shady--it is dictatorial. Controlling all the Boston theatres except the Repertory, which now shows only movies, it forces producers to accept its inordinate demands, or get out. As an instance, sets being shifted from the Colonial to the Plymouth, separated by a fifteen foot alley, have to be brought to the door by one set of stagemen and put into trucks by special loaders; a second group of loaders then takes the scenery out of the trucks...
Every effort is made to get the work done without charge, and is many cases Salmen has been able to clear up the difficulty himself. The Committee on the Correct Use of English, the advisers, and the section men have also helped the students...
...created of the glitter town's lusty early years. In effect it resolves into a Don Ameche Cavaleade, the story of a brilliant but erratic director of the old silent days who bombasts his way through many years of happiness and stark tragedy, and in the end manages to get Alice Faye and some gray hairs. Miss Faye, surprisingly effective in a role with no lyrics, very little legs, and custard pies in the face, plays the part of a Broadway star who comes to Hollywood at the instigation of Ameche. Though she marries the wrong man first, he contrives...
...really sacrificed himself to a great cause. He has made lots of people feel good. Think of the poor average American leading his mechanical, time-clock existence with his fat wife and his four-room duplex. Before Hitler the only things he had to look forward to were getting drunk on Saturday night and Roosevelt's fireside chats. Even movies held no charm for him. Imagine seeing a picture with Paulette Goddard in it, while sitting next to a hefty wife! Now he can guess philosophically about how long it will be before we get in the war, and secretly...
...Crimson will have another chance to get back on the winning track again when a strong B. U. team invades the Indoor Athletic Building tonight. The Terriers lost to Harvard last year in one of the closest games of the year, as the Feslermen came from behind in the closing minutes to close up a gap in the score...