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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quite apart from the fact that in all their pictures the Kids have undergone a miraculous, almost evangelical, reform, there is another and more obvious fallacy in the Commissioner's dialectic. The play which gave the young actors their name was produced in an attempt to expose the causes for a condition that had long existed in all large American cities. Largely as a result of the play and its celluloid counterparts, welfare agencies have benefitted from increased public interest and support in the work of juvenile guidance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COPS AND KINDS | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Feslermen started very slowly and soon found themselves on the shortened of a 10 to 4 count, but after that the edge in the play really belonged to them. they controlled the ball most of the contest but the glaring trouble was simply that no one could stop Mischo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pucksters Beat Princeton as Quintet Loses to Penn | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...have a very close connection with Harvard," admitted Gertrude Lawrence, star of "Susan and God," in a recent interview. "A Harvard man tried to teach me how to play the saxophone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Star of "Susan and God" Remembers Past Relations with Harvard Student | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...When I was in Boston in 1925, I caught pneumonia, and while I was resting, under doctor's orders, Johnny Green, now a popular song writer and then a student at Harvard, used to come with some of his friends and play for me. I wanted to learn how to play the saxophone, but I never got further than the first three notes of 'God Save the King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Star of "Susan and God" Remembers Past Relations with Harvard Student | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...musical career of the famous English actress, who has been in this country since 1922, did not end with this failure, however, Later, inspired by a group of musicians with whom she starred on a radio program, she learned to play the ocarina, the colloquial "sweet potato...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Star of "Susan and God" Remembers Past Relations with Harvard Student | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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