Word: metropolises
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Freedley's play, his first, deals with New York life; and in order to portray the diversities of the great metropolis, the young playwright has adopted some 30 scenes, occurring in different parts of New York during the course of a crowded day.
"The approach has been experimental in that the sets and music form the true theme of the play. The main story serves only as a backbone on which to hang short scenes expressing the vast and varied character of the people forming a great metropolis," Freedley said.
Natural Sham. A typical compilation of 1939 magazine-verse is Sara Henderson Hay's This My Letter. Its author herself is typical of the many Americans who are harassed by an almost total lack of disadvantages. She has: a genteel Southern education, a husband (Raymond Holden, verse-writing novelist...
In the U. S.'s great metropolis, New York City, the war cast even longer shadows:
The British still expect London to be strafed in event of war, but they are confident that much as its buildings may be damaged, with its new defenses life cannot be made impossible in the metropolis. They are certain that if London is not wrecked in two weeks, it will...