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...four dependents apiece for four years, Federal Theatre fulfilled its purpose: relief. In the process it made many original contributions to theatre art. Among them were its productions of Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and T. S. Eliot's religious drama Murder in the Cathedral, the Negro Swing Mikado, etc. But Hallie Flanagan is especially proud of the socio-esthetic achievement as a whole, of the fact that millions were given a wide gamut of drama from Euripides to O'Neill, as well as musical comedies, pageants, ballets, puppet shows, children's plays, foreign-language productions, radio...
...palace, abruptly asked: "Mr. Cramp, at what school of naval architecture were you educated?" Said Cramp: "Your highness, I was educated in my father's shipyard, and he was educated in his father's shipyard. We founded our own school of naval architecture." The Tsar, the Mikado, the Sultan of Turkey all bought Cramp battleships. Japan's Cramp-built Kasagi sank Russia's Cramp-built Variag...
...bright. Last year the president of Episcopal St. Paul's University, Tokyo, was forced to resign because, in reading the hallowed Imperial rescript on education in chapel on a national holiday, he stood on the altar steps, below the lectern where the Bible is read, thus ranking the Mikado lower than...
...monuments will be erected to the Broadway season of 1939-40. In solid achievement, it proved the weakest in years. It lacked also exciting experiment-had nothing to compare with the Sceneryless Stage, a one-act Julius Caesar, Pins and Needles, Hellzapoppin, The Swing Mikado. Few, even, of its many failures were honorable. It had only one distinction: its jokes were good. The Man Who Came to Dinner, Life with Father, The Male Animal, Morning's at Seven and two or three musical shows made it an excellent season for comedy...
Inside this framework Michael Todd (who last year produced The Hot Mikado and this year The Streets of Paris at the Fair) put on a show which, at 25?, is the best buy in the history of the amusement area. No high-brow affair, it is lavishly designed for the outdoors with floodlights, loudspeakers, has Irene Sharaff's gorgeous costuming and Hassard Short's lively direction, does a slick...