Word: playlets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only other two articles in the book not dealing directly with the history of the Class are: "The Harvard Odyssey," a poem, and "Biddy versus Slumber," a playlet. Although every attempt has been made to keep this year's Red Book as short as possible, it is several pages longer than last year's issue due to the size of the Freshman Class. It is expected that the book will be a financial success if all the subscriptions which have been pledged are paid...
...Pike Club that I had lost my step-ins, think what would happen to my social standing. . . . But the best philosophy I ever heard can be expressed in three words - 'don't kid yourself.' That realization helped me to cure my Depression." Because clergymen objected, a playlet called "Does Crime Pay?", starring plump Mrs. Alice Schiffer Diamond, widow of Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, was dropped from the bill of Billy Watson's burlesque show when it reached Paterson, N. J. Protested Actress Diamond : "My theatrical act teaches a great moral lesson - everyone, young...
...consort of the late Gangster Jack ("Legs") Diamond, in a song-&-dance act at the Academy of Music, cheap movie & vaudeville theatre on Manhattan's lower East Side. The gangster's widow, plump Mrs. Alice Schiffer Diamond, announced that she, too, would appear in vaudeville, in a playlet designed to '"vindicate" her husband. Said she: ''He wouldn't have known how to be a gangster...
Civic Repertory Theatre. Eva Le-Gallienne's enterprise got underway for its fifth season with one new presentation, The Green Cockatoo by Arthur Schnitzler. Mr. Schnitzler's playlet advances the notion that slumming was a popular diversion in France during the reign of Louis XVI. Undaunted by the fact that the Bastille has just fallen, a band of gallants and their lady friends come to roister in the tavern of one Prospère. The host has planted actors in the crowd to relate bloodcurdling events, thrill the guests, give them their money's worth. Climax...