Word: nieuw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crashing Through. This is one of those plays which tell how the other half lives, the other half in this case being the Pooles, a Nieuw Amsterdam-bound old family who are proud of family portraits, prouder still of family history or so much of it as has not been written in the past decade. Consuelo Poole (Rose Hobart) has a suppressed desire for a riveter who pumps bolts into the skeleton of a growing building near the Pooles' Manhattan home. One day, out of a steel-beamed sky, the riveter crashes through the Pooles' conservatory roof. Stunned...