Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...started, however, in the preceding decade when stage-struck Eastern collegians-notably the Princeton group headed by James Stewart, Myron McCormick, Joshua Logan and Bretaigne Windust-began spending their vacations doing old and new plays in New England resort communities. In 1930 there were 15 active "straw hat" companies within a night's railroad ride of Manhattan. By 1934, numerically the peak season, Variety could list 105 summer stock companies. At first Broadway producers thought that summer playhouses could be advantageously used to try out shows under consideration for the following season in town. Result was that three years...
Rhode Island's straw hat drama will be partially provided by the Theatre-by-the-Sea at Matunuck and the Casino Theatre at Newport, where Eric Swift's new play Sweet Sorrow will be on the boards next fortnight...
Last week King George, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother Mary, and 24 other knights-youngest, the Duke of Norfolk; oldest, the Duke of Portland; newest, Earl Baldwin-assembled in the Waterloo Chamber of Windsor Castle. Each wore a mantle of dark blue velvet with a crimson hood, a black velvet hat with white ostrich plumes. The only members of the Order who did not wear a gold-encrusted dark-blue garter below the left knee were the two Queens. Instead they wore them on the left...
...glass manufacturing establishments and hotel restaurants." It should have read "hotels and (or) restaurants." "I don't know just how it happened," said Senator Loizeaux. "It was the last day and the last bill and I didn't . . . check up on the wording." Hundreds of waitresses, entertainers, hat-check girls and employes in other than hotel restaurants would have been more worried about their jobs except that the Legislature is expected to remedy the omission at a special session already called for other purposes on June...
...starved German veterans meet a troop of Yankees who trade their canned foods for hat buttons, instruct Soldier Tjaden (Slim Summerville) in the U. S. art of gum-chewing (see cut). In the square of his native Klosterburg, frail Lieutenant Ludwig (Richard Cromwell) is stripped of his insignia by revolutionary ruffians. Romping Willy (Andy Devine) disperses the gang with an apple which he pretends is a hand grenade. Ernst (John King) breaks with his old sweetheart, shuns his family because he cannot endure the leisure and quiet of home. Frustrated and disillusioned, Ernst joins his mates nightly in rowdy drinking...