Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attorney prove that Hines got $500 a month for permitting professional gambling in his Monongahela Club (political headquarters) in Harlem, or that Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, head of the prostitute trust (since jailed), was more than a social acquaintance of Jimmy Hines. He did stay at the same hotel and play golf with Luciano on a junket to Hot Springs, Ark. Another Hot Springs habitue was 'Legger Owney Madden (beer...
...just before he was sent to a sanatorium for a rest, Herr Brinkmann was feeling on top of the world. Carefully going through the personnel of the Reichsbank and picking out many of the most talented men, he called them together. He also summoned a brass band. "Play a march," he said to the band. They played a march. When they had finished, Herr Brinkmann turned to the puzzled economists and bankers with a beaming face, and said: "Well, boys, now you're fired...
There are those who would as soon miss their own weddings as a Katharine Cornell play. Her yearning, mobile face is the contemporary theatre's testament of beauty, and only Helen Hayes can challenge her as Broadway's First Lady. Having achieved her own producing company, having played Juliet-ultimate role of all English-speaking actresses-Actress Cornell offers this week, at 41, what is usually the swan song of distinguished old age: an autobiography...
...American Bowling Congress up in Cleveland. It was Bowler McGeorge's first A.B.C. appearance. When the crowd from Kent arrived, the A.B.C. was rumbling through its third week, and up to then nothing spectacular had happened. Nothing McGeorge and the Kent men did in the five-man play served to jog the tourney out of its doldrums. Mac, for example, rolled 175-153-214 for a 542 total. Next day in the doubles, with a fellow named Cox, he did a little better-190-184-187 for a total...
...this point a bearded philosophical angel in a cutaway explains to the audience that the action would look just as logical in reverse. So the music begins to play backwards, the man uncommits suicide by jumping in through the window, the surgeons back in with the body, which comes alive, the letter goes back to the lover, the husband takes back his wife's birthday present and backs happily out the door. If somewhat short on logic in either direction, this piece of Kulturbolsche-whimsey was just as good fun coming as going...