Word: greenwood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charlotte Greenwood is back again in Boston (and has been ever since Christmas), amusing it, scaring it, singing to it, cavorting before it, and even offering to embrace it. For it seems that dramatic expression is not intimate enough, and after the play is over Miss Greenwood overflows with motherly endearments, sings "An Old Man's Darling" in loud and lusty shrieks, and then burlesques sex in a piece called "Moon Melody," using to capacity her amazingly ungainly person...
...play itself is called "Leaning on Letty," by Wilbur Daniel Steele and Norma Mitchell. It is taken from "Post Road," one purpose of the adaptation being to include the name "Letty," Miss Greenwood's favorite alias. It begins with farce, but before the first of the two acts is over, the spectator learns that he is dealing with criminals plentifully sprinkled in amongst the comics. After the curtain rises again, Letty Madison slowly but effectively outwits the motley gang of variously disguised crooks that has taken possession of her old Connecticut homestead to perpetrate a kidnapping act. The team consists...
...already intimated, Charlotte Greenwood, amazingly resourceful as Letty, and equally versatile as herself, is the raison d'etre of the show. Con- sequently, her support is rather faulty. Romaine Callender, for example, painfully overdoes the part of the minister. Of course, it might be pleaded that the acting within the acting should not be perfect, lost it cease to be acting. Russell Fillmore and Isabel Withers are good enough as the dim-witted, ineffectual brother-in-law and sister of the heroine. But good or bad, none of the supporting cast matters much. As the revelation or re-introduction...
...wrestling team will meet Brown on Saturday in the Indoor Athletic Building at 3 P. M., a Freshman wrestling match with the Bruins also being scheduled on that day. The Varsity swimming team, potentially one of the strongest in the country, has a match with Greenwood Memorial Club at 8:15 o'clock on Saturday, and the Freshman swimming team will meet Gardner High School on the same day at 4 o'clock. A Freshman basketball game with Tufts is scheduled for Wednesday to be played in the Indoor Athletic Building at 7:30 o'clock and to be followed...
...York's sanitary code requires that all bodies be buried within four days after death. To Mayor LaGuardia, the Greenwood Cemetery crisis had ceased to be a labor dispute and become a problem in public health. So it was-not because of a strike in one cemetery but because it posed the possibility of some great future strike that might spread pestilence as did exposed, decaying bodies in the Middle Ages-that the Mayor directed his labor adviser, Nathan Frankel, to notify the cemetery management and the strikers that unless they promptly settled the dispute, he would act. Then...