Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Swindling under these conditions comes close to treason. And if a foreign grocer is deprived of his rights to sell because he charges a few cents in excess of the legal rate for sugar, the capitalist who turns sorely needed funds into private pockets must not expect to retain his power over finance. Loyalty and service are the tests or survival...
John T. Murray, the star gazer, didn't over-play, in spite of a temptation. And the really lively role of the show was that of John Harwood. He was the green grocer last year in "Getting Married," and the shift from Shavianism to Shubertism did not curb his artfulness. If the librettist, Cosmo Hamilton, will work as hard at revision as Harwood did at the premiere, "The Star Gazer" may discover an orbit for itself on Broadway...
...Breck, a journalist, W. L. Walker '18 Anna Breck, his wife, Miss Marion Feeley Doris Breck, Miss Madeline St. Laurent Sam Kline, a restaurant keeper, J. W. D. Seymour '17 Jack Regan, F. D. Manson '18 Mrs. Regan, Miss Kathleen Whitham Adelaide Haskins, Mrs. Henrietta Tighe Van Doren, the grocer, G. E. Massey '15 Martin Doremus, a farmer, L. B. Hebb '17 Cyrus Pratt, Martin's friend, W. B. Beale '18 Bobby Smith, B. Williams '18 Moving men, D. L. Kennedy '17 L. M. Van der Pyl '18 Head Waiter, D. L. Kennedy '17 Waiters, C. R. Metzger...
Finkelstein, D. S., wholesale grocer...
...refugees, driven by hunger to purchase food at exorbitant prices, and goaded into violence by the grocer's brutality, are at length supported by the militia, who seize the store under martial law, and distribute bread to the needy. The play is well constructed, and its dramatic effects were well managed. The suggestion of the distant fire as a background for the action of the play was especially effective...