Word: jig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solely to amuse themselves, a group of friends at Provincetown, Mass., 16 summers ago, went over to Hutchins Hapgood's verandah and put on a couple of plays. Susan Glaspell was there; so were George Cram ("Jig") Cook, rebel John Reed, Mary Heaton Vorse. Robert Edmond Jones, a young man of talent and resource, fashioned scenery out of porch furniture, odds-&-ends. The Almighty supplied the backdrop, a tumbling ocean. Next year the play-acting fad persisted. Mary Vorse turned over a shack on her wharf to the enterprise and someone named Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, a lank...
...Charity convent accustoming herself to the contemplative life. Beauteous, of classic mold, she is the first U. S. addition to the Mahatma's platonic harem. She speaks Indo-Aryan and other Oriental languages, recently made a novel of her own eventful life. Her father was the late George Cram ("Jig") Cook, author, playwright, onetime director of the Provincetown Players, who, successively the husband of Sara Herndon Swain, Mollie A. Price, Playwright Susan Glaspell (Allison's House), adopted Greece as his country and died there seven years...
...grocer in Hopkinsville, Ky., who paid a dollar for his ticket and won $136,399 on Cameronian. His wife danced a jig and nodded when he announced his plans to "send receipts to all my creditors and then burn the account book publicly...
...Peanut Vendor (El Manisero), with its hot, catchy rhythm between a jig and a tango, has started an invasion. Don Azpiazu's Havana Orchestra brought the song north last year, played it with other Cuban tunes at RKO's Palace Theatre in Manhattan, afterwards at the smart Central Park Casino. Then Don Azpiazu went back to Cuba to entertain U. S. tourists. He left his tunes behind. Manhattan's Leo Reisman learned to lead them. Reisman's drummer mastered the four complicated beats which Cuban orchestras emphasize with the bongo (a double-headed drum held between...
Miss Isabel Hegner has consented to play the incidental music, with the help of Bernard Goldberg '33. The music, which will be off-stage, is to consist of old-fashioned melody, and, in the third act, of jig-time in the fashion of "Turkey in the Straw...