Word: merchanted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Dramatic Society had some very fine days eight or nine years ago; I haven't heard of it at all lately," said Thornton Wilder, during a recess from the rehearsal and revision of his newest play, "A Merchant of Yonkers," which is finishing a tryout run in Boston this week...
Whimsy, wit, charm, and pace has Max Reinhardt's production of Thornton Wilder's new farce, "The Merchant of Yonkers," which opened last night with Jane Cowl in the leading role. And yet this sometimes touching story of the petty desires of mankind for excitement and fun and just a little money, is not really so different from the poignant "Our Town" in its sympathetic treatment of the average mortal, a treatment almost Dickensonian in quality which has made Mr. Wilder one of the foremost dramatists of our-time...
...violinist, Fritz Kreisler is also widely known for his compositions, chief among them a sheaf of ingratiating light violin pieces (Caprice Viennois, Tambourin Chinois, etc.) which are played by all of today's important fiddlers. In 1902 he married a U. S. woman, Harriet Lies, daughter of Tobacco Merchant George P. Lies. Violinist Kreisler has a belief that if one has practiced well in youth, the fingers should hold their suppleness in later years. Says Wife Harriet: "He would be a better violinist if he practiced more...
...attacked Southern Naval Policy. . . . How about Lincoln's naval policy? If his navy hadn't been so busy blockading every Confederate port and starving Southern women and children to death while his armies were marching around pillaging and burning everything in sight, he might have saved his merchant marine...
...ruining an enemy's merchant marine is considered by TIME as of no military importance, I merely refer you to the prosecution of any war. . . . Most thinking critics believe the Captain's mistake was in fighting any men-of-war at all, since his value as a commerce destroyer was so great to his government...