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While the orchestra plays appropriate theme songs Sweeney Todd (R. B. Clement '32) pursues his business of murder while Mrs. Lovett (R. T. Frescoln '34), next-door bakeshop proprietress, manufactures tuppenny pies out of the corpses. Mark Ingestrie (W. McM. Heyl '33) is the sailor lad in love with demure Johanna Oakley (C. J. Fleming '33). It is Mark's pearls which arouse the avarice of the Fleet Street razor wielder and finally bring about his apparent demise via his own unholy chair. The Playgoer cannot assay to conduct his readers through the plot of a Victorian melodrama, but they...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/24/1933 | See Source »

Delaware, next-door neighbor to Pennsylvania, did likewise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKS: Close to Bottom | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

...Chicago, Mrs. Albert S. Gardner, also a great-great-great granddaughter of the 2nd President, sued a next-door neighbor for $500, charging he had killed her wire-haired terrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...reduced him to one of his frequent tantrums. Both Biscuit and Berry, dissatisfied with their lot, felt the need of some change. When lovely Ann Moon. Frisby's niece, came over for a London season, and the equally desirable Kitchie Valentine paid a visit to Berry's next-door neighbor, changes came fast & furious. Engagements, false beards, gunmen, a copper mine, burglary, wedding bells are all Wodehumorously manipulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Biscuit & Berry* | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

Civic-minded Clevelanders have long dreamed of a great centre of scientific education. The first step in such a program would be the interchange of instruction between Case and its next-door neighbor Western Reserve, situated near University Circle, where Euclid Avenue, the city's main stem, turns toward the suburbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Desire | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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