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Word: metropolis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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Naturally such a play is not for rustics or provincial cityites. Last week the Author-Producer, famed Walter Hasenclever, made the questionable move of taking his farce, Marriages Are Made in Heaven, away from the great German metropoli and out to Frankfurt-am-Main. There good and pious Frankfurters tried to wreck the piece. When God lit a cigar they hissed. When he picked up a saxophone and tooted they booed. But pandemonium did not break loose until God accepted a highball from Mary Magdalene, grew confidential and confessed: "You know I never did create the World. Queer how that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Blasphemous Play | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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