Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broadway season, like the oyster season, is restricted to months with an r in them. With only one more show, a musical, opening this season and with such hits as Hooray for What! and Of Mice and Men already closed, it was plain last week that few producers were running the risk of theatrical ptomaine. But 1937-38 was eupeptic. No really bad play landed on its feet, though several got passing marks almost entirely through star acting: Susan and God because of Gertrude Lawrence, Whiteoaks because of Ethel Barrymore, Once Is Enough because of Ina Claire. Further...
Under the glaring lights of Reno's Harold's Club last week a dozen ugly, hybrid* mice blinked beady eyes at the crowd of divorcees, lawyers, barflies crowding into the gambling room. Manager R. I. Smith was trying out a new invention. An attendant hauled a shrinking mouse out of a coop, dropped him on a flat, glass wheel. Frightened, the mouse started to sprint. The wheel spun. When it began to slow down, the mouse sought shelter in one of the 56 glass cages, each marked with a playing card. This time he darted beneath the jack...
...cross between tame & wild mice, they were supposed to be more fearful, less amenable to training, than either...
...women of the western world were not religious, parsons, church mice and a small minority of men would have the churches pretty much to themselves. Last week the Ladies' Home Journal monthly survey reported upon what 37,000,000 U. S. women think about religion. Only 47% of them attend church regularly, although 76% are church members. Of Roman Catholic women, 85% are regular churchgoers. Of Protestant women, 54% actually go to church-a percentage which, even allowing for U. S. Protestant men who do not attend church, is somewhat higher than Statistician Roger Ward Babson's estimate...
Hillyer believed that the biography award "was a good choice." As for the drama award Hillyer declared "For my part I am glad that "Our Town" won the drama prize instead of "Of Mice and Men" which seems to me overrated...