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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lancaster girls play the feminine roles in Green Room shows, and costumes are rented; otherwise everything connected with the productions - acting, staging, lighting, scene-designing-is done bythe club itself. About half its audiences are drawn from the campus, the other half from the town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Braver than Broadway | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Chicago Fellows meet for 50? lunches at the Brevoort Hotel on Tuesdays, listen to speeches on "How I Came to Jesus," enjoy a half-hour of "Christian fellowship." Most of the Fellows are white-collar workers, with a scattering of executives like Board Chairman James Lewis Kraft of Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corp., Vice President Frank Flagg Taylor of Continental Illinois Bank. Still spark plug of the club is Cartoonist Shoemaker, who contributes drawings to the club paper, lately packed a Tuesday meeting by demonstrating the "Shoescope," a $1,500 contraption which projects his cartoons, as he draws them, upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gospel Cartoonist | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Maximum presidential term in most Catholic colleges is six years. Father O'Hara has served five and a half at Notre Dame, last week announced his resignation next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Consistory | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...exhibition match. This year, at 58, white-haired, lithe Eleonora Sears is still going strong. Last week, in the Atlantic Coast squash championship (at Atlantic City), first big tournament of the season, she reached the semi-finals in a field of top-flight players, most of whom were half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Old Girl | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...wisecracking about the smallness of a Philadelphia hotel room he once put up in (TIME, Dec. 18), tried to make amends by explaining that times had changed; but that old room, said he, "was so small it had a digest phone book, the calendar on the wall showed only half a day, the ceiling was so low that if you ordered a three-decker sandwich, the waiter brought one deck at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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