Word: obediah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pumpernickle Bill's car is a familiar sight on Pennsylvania roads. He averages about 30,000 miles a year, taking in Grange meetings, bee inspections, potato demonstrations. He has been writing his friendly column of anecdotes since the death in 1924 of Obediah Crouthamel (real name: Solomon DeLong), to whose column he was a contributor. Pumpernickle Bill's slogan is: "Fergess net, un schreib alsa mohl" (Don't forget to write sometime). A feature of his column is: "Glawwas Odder Net, Ow'r" (Believe It or Not). Sample...
Excursion (by Victor Wolfson; John C. Wilson, producer) is the log of the S. S. Happiness, Obediah Rich, commanding. He and his vessel had grown old together and were both soon to be decommissioned. So he summoned his elder brother down from Yarmouth, got his passengers aboard, tooted his whistle and on a fine Sunday morning, with the sun high in the sky, Obediah (Whitford Kane) and the Happiness set out for their last cruise from Manhattan's 125th Street to Coney Island...
...time the Happiness had returned to her pier on opening night, Excursion, a comedy compassionate, tender and wise, had taken its place among the stage's rarer offerings, was being compared with that other notable maritime drama, Outward Bound. For by the beginning of Act II- when Obediah and his brother look out on benighted, garish Coney Island and pity the people who so desperately depend on such a place for their fleeting, unfufilling recreation-Excursion begins to take on a modest significance. Why not, says Obediah's slightly pixillated Brother Jonathan, take this doomed little ship...
...ship's heterogeneous company -the girls from Gimbel's, the owner's radical daughter and conservative son, the exhausted Jews, the adulterous Irish-take or reject Obediah's offer of escape, how they react to the sudden necessity of facing their inmost problems, is a situation ably handled by Dramatist Wolfson. Hitherto known as an adapter of Left propaganda plays, in Excursion he exhibits a notable capacity for original characterization and narrative. Without sacrificing any of his play's moral values, he manages to bring the Happiness back into New York Harbor after a wild...