Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Goings-on in Italy backed up the belief that Il Duce would continue to play ball with both sides. While he was speaking in Bologna, it was announced in Rome that Italian garrisons were being withdrawn from the Dodecanese Islands off Greece, a gesture in the Allies' favor. A few days earlier Italy and Greece had both moved back from the Greco-Albanian frontier. Italy sent an Ambassador, Giuseppe Bastianini, to the Court of St. James's, where she has had none since June. Italy made no protest last week when the British stopped an Italian ship...
Chubby (George) Orson Welles, whose radio play War of the Worlds convinced many Jerseyites that Martians had captured Newark Airport, arrived there on a garbage truck after the taxi taking him to his plane broke down. Grateful for the ride, Bogeyman Welles cleaned up an old joke and remarked: "The driver was decent enough. When someone asked him what he had aboard, he said 'Actors and garbage.' That gave us top billing...
...even such black marks as Mr. Larry Clinton's persistent swipings from Tschaikowsky can cover up some of the fine playing done this year both on records and in person by a great many bands. Among the crop of new outfits, trombonists Jack Teagarden and Jack Jenny and pianist Teddy Wilson have units worth watching . . . The public's taste in jazz has kept on improving; consequently, Mr. Shaw is finding things just a bit more difficult. His tripe isn't quite as easy to pan-handle this year . . . Benny Goodman has broken the biggest unwritten law in jazz by having...
...capably, but he was no match for the red-hot McGee. By winning, the Cards retained a fighting chance at the pennant if they can win the final game of the series tomorrow. They are still 2 1/2 games behind the Reds, and have only four games left to play...
Admittedly given on a small scale, the production nevertheless did remarkable things with the materials at its command. The suspense, life-blood of the play, was well carried out and combined with a high quality of acting and vivid sets, to finish off the show, like the Emperor himself, in fine fashion. There were times, however, when the pace lagged and might have been quickened up to heighten the suspense. Frank Silveram, who, by necessity of script, practically put on a one-man show, got plenty of oomph into the part, though occasionally overacting it. The real laurels...