Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They lately met again in Kansas City after years during which Ace Wolff was an engineer for the Mercedes and Junker concerns. Play-managing did not appeal to Ace Wolff so strongly as the chance to return to the air which was offered him in Sioux City by Arthur S. Hanford Jr. of Hanford Tri-State Air Lines...
Said he: "I would like to produce all the plays of Shakespeare in America. Why doesn't some American magnate try some thing different - Hamlet with Chaplin, for instance, accompanied by good jazz music." Elmer L. Rice, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning play Street Scene, said last week: "After 15 years in the theatre I am convinced that nobody knows anything about it. This play . . . was turned down by all the prominent New York producers who told me it wasn't a play. ... I never have followed rules or technique." Thomas Tunney, Manhattan detective, brother of retired fisticuffer...
...Guild. Said he: "I am sure [you] are all good Catholics and very good actors. As for myself, if I try to be a good Catholic I am not at all sure to be a good actor on that very catholic scene of Washington diplomacy, where ambassadors have to play their part in a kind of international revue and all-day performance before a tolerant but slightly bored public...
...addition to Optional Consumption, the committee (seemingly bent on creating phrases) also discussed Leisure Consumption-the fact that shorter hours of employment produce longer hours of leisure and that less work and more play make Jack a good spender. The busy radio and cinema industries were cited as examples of Optional Consumers engaged in Leisure Consumption...
Another typical case is that of the Strand Theatre, Akron. The Strand's musicians must remain in the pit six hours on Sunday, three hours on week days, although they only play for 15 minutes per day since the installation of a sound apparatus. If they leave, their contract is broken...