Word: objectiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chorus. Sophisticated Theophile Gautier once said that the only thing one could not exhibit on the stage was a pot de chambre. The chief distinction of Sisters of the Chorus, another theatrical attempt to romanticize the lives of thugs and their lady friends, is that just such a utilitarian object is within full view of about one-half of the audience, the play's humor springing largely from the fact that a bathroom opens on the principal scene. There is a good deal of tedious talk about the nefarious ethics and business conduct indigenous to "Broadway...
...Bishop does not object legally to newspaper accounts of his meeting and friendship with Mrs. Helen Hawley McCallum of Manhattan, who last year accompanied him to Palestine as secretary and last summer to England in the same capacity, and whom he married last July...
...does object to a Hearst report: "On the night before his [first] wife [Lura Virginia Bennett Cannon] died, about two years ago, Bishop Cannon visited Mrs. McCallum in her apartment...
...does object to the Hearst papers stating that he tried to prevent the conviction of Harry L. Goldhurst, the Man hattan bucketeer who handled the Bishop's stock account and who now is serving a five-year sentence in Atlanta Penitentiary...
Last week, Sidney Franklin, Brooklyn matador, home from Spain for a vaudeville engagement (see p. 18), told a New York Evening Post newsman that bulls do not go berserk when they see red. Said he, "That is nonsense. . . . The bull charges a moving object. . . . The matador uses a red cape for esthetic reasons-it will not show bloodstains...