Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Susanna made the Lyric Theatre's repertory because a Fosterphile, Josiah Kirby Lilly of the Indianapolis druggist Lillys, had backed it to the tune of $50,000. Last week, just about the time the mutual backscratching was over, the Lyric Theatre noticed it had three flops on its hands. It closed its season after a dozen performances, announced it would send The Devil on the road in the autumn, open a second season with some new tries...
Democrats and Republicans in mutual self-protection had agreed to have a non-partisan debate. Excerpts...
...Nations Council, holding its 105th meeting, was confronted with only minor or dead problems. Real doings took place in hushed hotel suites where British Foreign Seretary Lord Halifax and the Soviet delegate Ivan Maisky, also Ambassador at London haggled over the terms of the projected Anglo-French-Soviet mutual aid pact, with the prospect ever brighter that Britain would eventually accede to the Soviet demand for an out-&-out military alliance...
...BAKER SCRIPT DELIVERY CAR on its sides, hired an indigent dentist to drive it to the studios for which they cracked out an unrivaled list of successes. Towne & Baker like to work in hats and no shirts (see cut), Towne building up ideas and Baker tearing them down. Their mutual devotion is celebrated in a popular Hollywood story that when Baker was dying of pneumonia last year, Towne climbed into his oxygen tent and revived his partner by threatening to deprive him of screen credit on a forthcoming film...
...Prince Potemkin, adviser to and lover of Catherine the Great, in Tsarist days Vice Commissar Potemkin was a professor of mathematics, later went into the diplomatic service. As Ambassador to Italy he became known for his knowledge of Roman antiquities and in France he helped negotiate the French-Soviet mutual aid pact. He is tall, distinguished in appearance, a good linguist. Colonel Beck welcomed the Vice Commissar, and Comrade Potemkin, according to the Warsaw press, picked up from Colonel Beck enlightening details on a deal which Herr Hitler had tried to make some weeks ago with the Poles...