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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's opening there was as much fun from out front as from the stage. When the cast went down into the aisles to dance a Boomps-a-Daisy with members of the audience, up rose Al Smith to tread a measure with alacrity and abandon, drew a storm of applause for being both a good boompser and a good sport. A little later Funnyman Robert Benchley was presented with a live chicken, Little-Man-What-Next Billy Rose with a child's potty-chair...
...club, careful to mix its shots, has produced such classics as Everyman, Twelfth Night, Dr. Faustus; such a novelty as W. S. Gilbert's Tom Cobb, or Fortune's Toy; such modern plays as Biography, High Tor, The Petrified Forest. Last week it tackled John Webster's difficult Elizabethan horror play, The Duchess of Malfi, proved itself braver than Broadway, which last produced the play in 1858. (Two seasons ago Orson Welles planned to do it, got cold feet...
Long lacking has been a concise, up-to-date, inexpensive encyclopedia of the theatre. The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays (Crown, $3), out last week, adequately fills the need. It is marred by too much sloppy writing and too many canned opinions; but inside its 900 pages Editor Bernard Sobel-a veteran of Broadway-has crammed a vast amount of useful information about the theatre's thousands of years...
...urging of Herbert Hoover, national chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund, Inc. (see p. 7), last Sunday was made Finland Day in many a U. S. State and city. The nation's most famed Protestant preacher, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, composed a prayer for the occasion...
...intangible one called the Army & Navy Diocese. Its uncounted souls are all the Catholics in the armed forces; Catholic civil employes of the military; their families. Its priesthood: 517 Catholic chaplains, active and reserve. This diocese has no bishop all to itself; its last one was the late Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York...