Word: play
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wiser, Tougher. Thus Franklin Roosevelt once again struck, and struck vigorously, the keynote of contemporary U. S. feeling. In that key he proceeded to play the rest of his composition...
Last week in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace was held the 34th annual National Motor Boat Show, No. 1 rendezvous for pleasure boatmen. On display were 150 boats ranging from a 5-ft., $20 play boat to a 53-ft., $31,000 motor yacht. But the boats that attracted most attention were the 30-to-40-ft., $3,000-to-$ 10,000 cruisers, comfortable enough for week-end sporting or water-gypsy travel...
...other incest. When Cocteau offered free tickets to school children, the Paris Municipal Council ordered the theatre's lease canceled, thus closing the show. Cocteau, who calls himself "John the Bird-catcher," at once slapped a five-million-franc damage suit on the city of Paris, alleging his play has "great artistic merit" and insisting that it was left "to the discretion of the teachers to choose the pupils most worthy to profit by the offer of free tickets...
Only thing that gives the play distinction is Ethel Waters' playing of Hagar. In her first dramatic role the famed singer of blues and hotcha shames the play's bogus tear-jerking with her own deep and honest intensity. More moving than anything in the story are the fugitive looks of love and suffering that every so often cross Ethel Waters' plain, brown, human face...
There are a few points in Freddy's style, however, which have not reached the full bloom of maturity, and it is with these that I am concerned. I am sure he will no mind if I play the critic, but will take it all in the spirit of helpful cooperation in which it is intended...