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...famous and (or) notorious Nineveh Chorus, featured recently on the photo pages of Boston papers, consists of Jeanne Stern of Radcliffe, Helen Porter of Dana Hall, Julie Casay of Childe-Walker, Virginia Leach of Radcliffe, Martha Bird of the Junior League, Olivia Osberne of the Junior League and Vincent Club, and Mary Lou Walpole of Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Dog" Has First Appearance At Copley Theatre Tonight | 5/7/1937 | See Source »

...School and Radcliffe College, the Spring Dramatic Club Show, "The Dog Beneath the Skin", now in the throes of rehearsal, promises more interesting moments than that organization has presented to its theatre-going public in many moons. Featuring speed, sex, and savoir-faire, and with the dancing chorus of Nineveh Girls, consisting of choice Vincent-Clubbers, as a definite highlight, the production is scheduled for exhibition on Friday and Saturday evenings, May 7 and 8, at the Copley Theatre in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Enrolls Help of Four Female Institutions in Spring Show | 4/22/1937 | See Source »

...made strangely new by unexpected flashes of modern psychology analyzing Jonah's weakness and his strength, by the scene inside the belly of the whale, in which the whale out of consideration for Jonah's position has had nothing to drink, or the scene at the Hotel Baal in Nineveh, where the Lady chairman of the Semiramis Club, a sort of women's Rotary, a part ably acted by Miss Evelyn Stern, speaking of the post-war generation of young people with their fondness for mixed Greek wines and Ethiopian music, calls upon the Prophet from his far-flung battle...

Author: By H. W. L. dana, | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

...part of the prophet Jonah himself which is the fat part in this entertaining play and Mr. John Weld entered into it with a naturalness and seriousness that were arresting, though perhaps he was a little too mild and good-natured for his vehement outbursts against the ladies of Nineveh or his anger against God when God proved more merciful to Nineveh than...

Author: By H. W. L. dana, | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/11/1936 | See Source »

Persia & Irak. "And the trees that bear wool I clipped." So wrote Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians seven centuries before Christ. His wool-bearing "trees" were the earliest known cotton. For the cotton and for his fabulous gardens at Nineveh he needed water. Dr. James Henry Breasted, famed founder-director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, returning from an airplane visit to his twelve lieutenants and their staffs busy in the Near East, said that Sennacherib brought his water through a 3O-mi. aqueduct. A member of the Irak expedition, led by a friendly native, had found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers' Year | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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