Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Neighborhood. Across the street stands the Leiter mansion wherein George Nathaniel Curzon, who later became the Marquess of Curzon, late famed Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, married Mary Victoria Leiter, heiress of Levi Z. Leiter, Chicago storekeeper. Andrew W. Mellon lives in an apartment a block away. Nearby is the Belgian Embassy and the home of the late Senator Lodge. The White House is ten blocks distant...
...level. Upon entering, the student is dazzled by a magnificence unfamiliar to habitures of Sever and Harvard Halls. The room has the general design of a motion picture theatre, with sloping tiers of seats, each one equipped with a new device for supporting notebooks, and for ventilating the immediate neighborhood...
...There are huge investments there, both foreign and Chinese which would be jeopardized, as well as the lives of the citizens, if the Chinese armies were to try to seize Shanghai. It is for this reason that various governments are sending ships and soldiers to that neighborhood. As far as the United States is concerned it may be stated confidently that there is no aggressive intention what ever...
...Shakespeare, but the performances of "The Sea Woman's Cloak" and "The Scarlet Letter" are also worthy of high praise. The acting, as a whole, is the nearest thing to Moscow Art--which means theatre art--that we have in this country. (With the possible exception of the Neighborhood Playhouse...
...plays in prospect, the all-star revival of "Trelawney of the Wells," Martin Brown's "The Dark" (tried out in Boston last year), and the Neighborhood Playhouse's production of "Pinwheel" seems to be most promising, with the last being the most likely to be fine...