Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buyers who procrastinated too long to get the seats they wanted. To turn out a play each and every week requires considerable manipulation on the part of the producer, the actors and actresses, and the property men. From 9:30 in the morning until midnight the typical Brattle Hall player's day is spent half in preparing for one play and half in putting on another with only a few minutes left for meals...
Those who desire Coop service, will have to do their own a little longer, according to G. E. Cole, manager. Said Cole yesterday: "We are taking the maximum. It reminds me of the sign in the barroom, 'Don't blame the piano-player, he's doing the best he can.' I'm hoping that by slow attrition things will get down to normal...
Into a Los Angeles courtroom last week shuffled gangling, 53-year-old William Tatem Tilden II, once the world's greatest tennis player. His fault: homosexuality (he had been caught in a parked car with a 14-year-old ball boy from the Los Angeles Tennis Club...
...beat in Berlin's ghostly, once posh Zoo district, decided to investigate. He found a door marked only with the sign "Please Pull Hard." He pulled. Inside were smartly dressed men & women, lounging at a long bar or drinking champagne at small tables. A singer and piano player trilled out melodies...
...policeman's entrance created a minor disturbance. The piano player stopped playing, offered him a drink. The policeman declined, menacingly pulled out his little black book. Then a man whom he recognized as one of Germany's leading film stars came over, and said soothingly: "Don't be foolish. There's an English general here who wants to amuse himself. We lost the war, didn't we? Have a drink." The policeman muttered but took the drink. A lovely girl swished up to him, and another Berlin black-market nightclub was as good as saved...