Word: mobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventy-five students are acting as "supers" at the Boston Opera House this week where the Metropolitan Opera Company is presenting a ten day "season." Ranging in number from five in "La Boheme" to 52 in this Saturday's production of "Aida" they stand on the stage in mob scenes and where extras are needed, and get paid a dollar a performance. The following hold jobs...
...going to write another book, one that no publisher could consider too serious for Hokinson illustrations. Far less concerned with the incident than the fiery Hawes, shy Artist Hokinson, a specialist in the idiosyncrasies of clubwomen, was last week mainly interested in a delightful mass of raw material-a mob of inimitably shaped Garden Clubbers who descended on Manhattan's annual Flower Show. One of the few New Yorker satirists whose style has resisted fashion for a decade, Hokinson's workshop is her bedroom, in a neat little apartment on Manhattan's Beekman Place. On her living...
...swept over to the nearby German Embassy singing the Communist Internationale and there engaged London bobbies in one of the bloodiest fist fights ever staged. It was estimated that the crowd grew at last to 20,000, shouting "Chamberlain must go!" and "Ribbentrop get out!", yet this mob was expertly "handled" by only 800 police. Noses streamed and eyes were blacked, but British Democracy triumphed in the complete absence of firearms...
...Miami last week, a Federal Theatre labor play, Altars of Steel, had reached its 15th and climactic scene. The boss was barricaded inside his factory. A mob was milling outside the gates. A Liberal swung at a Communist, the Communist shot him, company guards shot the Communist. Ensued a terrific free-for-all which seemed like fine convincing stuff to the audience. And it was. Carried away by the action, the mob had suddenly taken violent sides, started swinging at each other in earnest. When the curtain came down, three limp actors were stretched out on the stage...
Chief flaws aimed at were disclosed last spring in the failure of the Class Spread from an enjoyment standpoint and in the mob scene staged by spectators at the Baccalaureate...