Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly last fall one studio took the offensive. Dust-collecting for nearly a year on the shelves at Warner Brothers had been Owen Davis' play Jezebel, a drama of moss-hung New Orleans, spiced with the vixenry of a high-spirited, imperious Southern belle...
Joseph Lautner from the Westminter Choir School of Princeton and Dorothy Baker, soloist at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York have leading roles. Soloists from Harvard include Fred Rogesin '30 as Thauatos (Death), Herbert Moss 2G as the Herald and Heracles, James L. Morrisson '38 as Evander, and David MacAllister '38 as Apollo...
...Vanderbilts built up an estate; Sapelo, where Calvin Coolidge vacationed; Sea Island, developed as a swank resort by Howard Coffin. St. Simons Island, connected by a causeway with the mainland and with Sea Island, is sparsely populated, but many a tourist travels its white-shell roads, lined with Spanish moss-hung trees, to see its Wesley Oaks. Beneath these, and in old Christ Church nearby, the founder of Methodism preached two centuries ago. In the dark of one night last week, someone stole past the Wesley Oaks to the Christ Church rectory. He fingered a .38, peered through a downstairs...
...climax the arrival of Santa Claus on local streets in a jingling sleigh drawn by a reindeer team. With a publicist's acumen, Mr. Newman acclimated his animals to Klaxon horns, Ford motors and shouting Eskimo youngsters while still in Alaska, coaxed them from a moss to alfalfa diet...
...Rather Be Right (book by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; produced by Sam H. Harris). Like the Tower of Babel, I'd Rather Be Right had the handicap of a tremendous buildup. Advance rumors of its superexcellence implied that its like had not been seen on Broadway in years. Written and scored by the two liveliest teams of playwrights and music writers in the U. S., its lead played by one of the most endearing veterans of the U. S. stage, I'd Rather Be Right simply...