Word: guys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yard breaststroke--Harvard: Mission V. Leventriff '35, Phillip Jr. '36, Walter S. White '36: Alumni; Guy C. Larcom...
...Gold Eagle Guy" Button, a potbellied, acquisitive little seaman, is first discovered in a low bar. In & out drift some of the extraordinary figures of old San Francisco, including zany Emperor Norton I. Also present is famed oldtime Actress Adah Isaacs Menken, the "Divine Jewess" of Mazeppa. Guy Button insults her, gets a slap in the face. In return, he swears that she will change her mind about him. It turns out that he is right...
Steadily and ruthlessly Button rises to power. He squeezes a onetime benefactor out of his steamship business. He imports, under heartless conditions, coolie labor to build western railways. Finally, when pressed close to the wall by Japanese mercantile competition on the Pacific, "Gold Eagle Guy" purloins a load of gold from one of his own ships, then sends it to sea to sink with all hands...
...Guy Button's practice to call upon God as his witness when the honesty of his ventures is questioned. When his son accuses him of the murder of his seamen, Button automatically asks God to strike him dead if he is not innocent. According to Playwright Levy, God does, in the guise of the San Francisco earthquake...
Donald Oenslager's collapsing stage set for the last scene provides as realistic a theatrical catastrophe as has been seen in Manhattan since The Storm. J. Edward Bromberg, the fatherly physician of Men in White, revels in his role of Guy Button, plays that bravura part to the hilt and beyond...