Word: playing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Theatre Project was killed (Illinois' Republican Dirksen buried it on the House floor by reading some of its play titles : Lend Me Your Husband, The Mayor and the Manicurist, Up in Mabel's Room, Did Adam Sin?, A New Deal for Mary). Other white-collar projects may be continued only if "sponsored" (partly paid for) by communities...
YALE Hazen get life when Keyes bobbled his bounder, and Holt sacrificed him on to second. Besse was safe when Keyes' high throw pulled Lupien off the bag, Hazen taking third on the play. Wood walked, filling the bases. Hazen scored on a fielder's choice as Keyes threw out Schroeder at first. Healey threw out Stevens. No hits, one run, three errors...
...plot is woven about the slim thread of the Yokel Boy's success in Hollywood and his sweetheart's -- Miss January -- failure therein. Thin though it is, the story might easily support a shorter play with the aid of its already first-rate score, its lavish settings, and its nifty costumes. By this time it's probably a good show...
...anyone-country, home, family, wealth and social standing." Soon as they arrived in the U. S., in 1923, Sergei was offered a $250-a-week job as an actor, in Mowris Gest's pantomime, The Miracle. But he quit during rehearsals. To him and his wife the play was "sheer blasphemy," its point appalling and incomprehensible. They found it hard to believe that "the Mother of God would deceive people just to protect the sins of a nun." The Goritzins, who spoke emigre English, had a hard time finding another job, finally drifted into domestic service...
Class Day week will get under way this evening at ten o'clock as the Senior Class holds its annual dance at Lowell House. Duke Ellington will play, with songstress Ivy Anderson as a feature...