Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some hours later, he met them face to face. For five hours Mesdames Fanny Zimmerman, Yetta Friedman, Ellen O'Loughlin, Yetta Chaleff, Mary Guariglia sat before him silent and tearless (by advice of counsel). For five hours he had to face them while lawyers-talking of poverty, slum life, marijuana, liquor-urged him to commute the sentences of the five women's five sons, aged 19 to 27, who were doomed to die January 26 for committing murder in the holdup of a Manhattan gambling house.* When Governor Lehman had heard all, he solemnly shook the mothers...
Wrote New Dealer Cummings, whose department has prosecuted many a U. S. citizen for false income tax statements: "The alternatives open to the alien were to remain in Germany and be reduced to a state of penury and serfdom, or to seek another life in another land. ... I advise . . . granting him a visa...
Says Carroll: "I write as Ibsen did. I take the life of a small village and enlarge it to encompass all human life." It is finding a theme that takes time with him; writing comes easy. He plans no more religious plays. The theme of his next work, Kindred, is that a common love for art can bind people more strongly than blood or nationality...
Dear Octopus (by Dodie Smith; produced by John C. Wilson). In real life the English surround their country houses with high hedges, for privacy. But in the theatre, English country houses are always ostentatiously on display. Dear Octopus provides the latest sentimental exhibit, peopling the manorial hall with one of those varied but unvarying families who know what Britannia-and the more genteel theatre public-expect of them. Every item in the ritual is carefully observed...
About Richard II Mr. Shipton says: "Even domestic life then had its adventures, for tradition says that a discontented slave girl once placed gunpowder beneath the massive family bed and blew it and the Colonel through the roof. When the bed came to rest, right side up and some distance from the house, the Colonel popped out, remarking, 'I know who did that...