Word: played
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that article your Milwaukee correspondent says that the character "John Steele" in my play, To the End of Time, is John Lewis. I merely wish to say that I have no control over anybody's personal opinion. Nor is that particular feature in his report the one that motivates this letter. What I have in mind is a certain very important inaccuracy-albeit undoubtedly an inadvertent one-in your article: your correspondent said that I obtained my finances from the "antilabor overlords" of Milwaukee. That is not true even in the very slightest degree! And if ever it becomes...
...regards the statement that the Milwaukee critics "booted the play around." That is quite true-but there are several vital reasons for that which have absolutely nothing to do with the merits or demerits of the play...
...mention of the half-empty houses: both legitimate theatres in Milwaukee are huge 1,600-seat houses, and with very few exceptions, no attraction that plays Milwaukee can boast of even half-empty houses. A half-capacity audience in Milwaukee is a distinct compliment to a play...
Wedding Bells. Only fault with this reasoning was that Son Carol refused to play. A year or so of training at Potsdam, a tutor in the person of Professor Nicholas Jorga, a dogged old National Democrat who was against virtually everything the Bratianus stood for-these put unexpected backbone into the young Prince. Mother Marie was too busy hatching plots to notice that Son Carol was developing a mind of his own. She had a first glimpse of Carol's stubbornness at the Court of the Tsar. She got a big dose of it when, in World...
...same time Carol began to try his hand at being a good parent. Father and son breakfasted together every morning. The King supervised the Crown Prince's education, made it a point to play with the boy as much as possible. As time went on Father won Son over completely-so completely that by last summer Mihai even accepted the friendship of Mme Lupescu...