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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most pointed gibes at Nazi Germany were made at the Anglo-American Press Association's annual dinner in Paris last week. A playlet depicted an imaginary second Munich conference at which Mr. Chamberlain, who had just promised Chancellor Hitler "all of Africa by 2 p. m. next Saturday," asked: "What would you have said, Adolf, if I had answered 'No' when you asked for the Sudetenland?" The German Chancellor wept into his sleeve, replied: "Ach, Mr. Chamberlain. You wouldn't have been an English gentleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sensitive Nazis | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...sentiments drift across the stage. Ghosts do the work, all too picturesquely, that cries out for living men. At its worst, the play is mere drivel. When the final curtain comes down on the family drinking a toast, it seems like the conclusion of a homemade English boarding-school playlet. When Moll Flanders (Isobel Elsom) rustles archly across the stage in her duchessy silks, mouthing fancy, ye-old-tea-shoppe truisms, she brings to mind Penrod and his friends acting out Mrs. Lora Rewbush's egregious Arthurian "pageant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Mencken last week declared that "the greatest story since the Resurrection" is the now living drama of Edward VIII. It cannot be staged in Britain as a play, although George Bernard Shaw hastily wrote last week for William Randolph Hearst a strongly pro-Mrs. Simpson and pro-Edward VIII playlet in which he flung at Prime Minister Baldwin the ultimate Irish insult of tagging him "Prime Minister Goldwyn." But the drama the world wanted to see, Edvardus Rex, was acting and writing itself hour by hour as the amazing facts erupted. They formed not a stately royal play such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Edvardus Rex | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

...most encouraging is Mr. Poor, who, with "In Defense of Democracy," makes a stirring though somewhat verbose appeal for liberalism against both Fascism and Communism. Mr. De Veaux Smith, with his playlet "Good-Luck," endeavours to meet the challenge of unemployment in a two-room flat on Third Avenue, where Mary Young and her son, Rob, eke out their days, Rob having had no work for thirteen months. To them, bearing a Thanksgiving day basket, comes a woman of wealth who turns out to have been a childhood playmate of Mary Young; Mr. Smith avoids the most obvious inducements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocate Shows Pessimistic Students Trying to Find Place in the Social Scheme, Says Miller | 5/2/1935 | See Source »

...main dramatic element in the film centers around a playlet which the students give. Manuela has been touched by the friendly sympathy of Fraulein von Bernburg, and after her successful performance, excited by too much strong punch, she makes a scene by shouting her gratitude and love for the teacher. Unfortunately the principal overhears the speech and Manuela is sentenced to solitary confinement. A narrowly avoided suicide brings the story to a happy conclusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 6/9/1933 | See Source »

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