Word: newe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich in more than one kind of name-calling. Before the wheelchair genuflect the world's great. "Gertrude Stein" phones from Paris. "Admiral Byrd" sends penguins, "William Beebe" an octopus. "Harpo Marx" arrives for a cyclonic visit. "Noel Coward" whizzes by, stopping long enough to play a "new song" of his, a howling burlesque all about...
...Dramatic Critic Woollcott answered: "I only review plays for money." In Too Many Girls (produced by George Abbott) Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who always bob up with something as little like their last musicomedy as possible, have jumped all the way from Shakespeare and old Syracuse to college and New Mexico. Their scene is a rundown campus called Pottawatomie ("One of those colleges that play football on Fridays") and their plot a combination of Boy Meets Girl and Team Beats Rival...
Ladies and Gentlemen (produced by Gilbert Miller; by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur from a play by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete) brings Near-Divinity Helen Hayes back to Broadway in her first new role there since December 1935. For this Broadway can rejoice, even though finding anything to rejoice at in the play itself is like looking for a needle in a Hayestack. After a two-month tryout, this thing of shreds & patches is still, like Gaul, divided into three parts-comedy, drama, romance -and, as in Gaul, the three parts are on very uncivil terms...
Divorced. Conrad Thibault, 34, opera & radio baritone who as a choirboy was encouraged by the late Calvin Coolidge to make singing his career; by Elinor Kendall Thibault, 29; in Reno, Nev. Immediately after the divorce, Mrs. Thibault married Frank James Welton, 23, of New York...
Died. Monsignor Michael Joseph Lavelle, 83, for 52 years pastor of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, Vicar General of the New York Roman Catholic Archdiocese; after long illness; in Manhattan. He was uniquely honored by being the first ecclesiastic below archiepiscopal rank to be buried in the cathedral crypt, in company with three Cardinals, two archbishops, including his old friend and superior, Patrick Cardinal Hayes...