Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposed to be, dear?" asked Queen Elizabeth. "Are you Daddy or the Mad Hatter...
...Manhattan offices at No. 195 Broadway fortnight ago, file clerks checked & counted proxies in preparation for the annual meeting of the world's biggest private enterprise. One proxy was sent to the office of President Walter Sherman Gifford. Smiling, he read: "Don't let them get you mad, Mr. Gifford." As things turned out, there was little for suave Mr. Gifford to be upset about when he faced 250 A. T. & T. stockholders at the meeting. The older member of the ubiquitous Gilbert family-Lewis-was on hand to ask an embarrassing question about Federal Communications Commission revelations...
...were not much better than the people in them. At Windsor, young Tom Canty falls under the wing of the bad Earl of Hertford (Claude Rains) who, when he hears Tom's story about how he got into the palace, merely tells King Henry that the Prince is mad. When the old king dies. Hertford plans to execute the Duke of Norfolk and have Tom Canty crowned, with himself as Lord Protector. As things shape up, he seems in a fair way to accomplish...
...orchestras, a cast of 102, and 15 changes of scenery are mild indications of the magnitude of the extravaganza now in preparation, while such parts as "The Dog's Skin", "the right foot" and the various "lovers", "lunatics" and "mad ladies" bid fair to intimate that the play will be grotesque as well as giantesque. Outstanding among the cast will be Alice Plimpton, Dorothy Wright, Martha Bird and Joan Jacoby of Vincent Club and Junior League affiliations; Peggy Eastell, Priscilla Freeman, and Barbara Logan from Erskine; Desiree Rogers, newly debbed, Jean Halliday from Beaver Country Day, Peggy Carter and Leslie...
...Rudy Rudynoff's four concentric circles of prancing horses have been augmented this year by the appearance-in the centre, holding a whip and a Great Dane-of statuesque Mile Maria Rasputin, billed as the Mad Monk's Daughter, who was out with the Hagenbeck Wallace Circus two years...