Word: plays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes of General Smigly-Rydz, a holy war. It was a war to stop the Devil, A. Hitler, before he put horns, cleft feet and an arrowy tail on every good Catholic in Poland. It was a war in which Providence would play a part. "We shall win," declared the Premier, "by the Holy Passion of Our Lord. He will lead us to victory." But before the week was out, the Devil's legions had captured Czestochowa, the Black Madonna's hometown...
Sirela, however, is not all peace talk. The dictionary has a column of symbols each for murder (FAREBORE - "The police are holding the victim's fiance for the murder") ; kidnapping (FAMIMIDO - "The child was lured from its home while at play"); vital statistics (FASIDOFA - "The birth of triplets was announced"). The language has other unusual features. The symbol for Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler, for example, is LADOSORE. But if Herr Hitler should suddenly be displaced by, say, Nazi-jailed Communist Ernst Thalmann, Sirela would serenely call the new Reichsfuhrer LADOSORE...
Although M. G. M. added such embellishments as a misplaced fashion show to the Clare Boothe play that ran 19 months on Broadway in 1936-38,* The Women, like its original, is a mordant, mature description of the social decay of one corner of the U. S. middle classes. Prevented by the nature of the cast from publicizing the picture with a studio romance, M. G. M. pressagents did not discourage the assumption of fan writers that its trio of temperamental stars were engaged in a studio feud. This device worked well recently for Warners', when George Raft...
...dress rehearsal. Instead of books, each child brought to school a gas mask and a knapsack (for some a pillowcase had to do) containing a change of underwear, spare stockings, pajamas, toothbrush, towel, soap, comb, 48-hours rations, milk, canned beef, biscuits, chocolate bars. Excused from lessons, pupils played all day in their schoolyards. When they tired of play, they broke into their knapsacks and ate their rations. The next three days were duller. London's school children just waited...
...carillon has at least 23 bells,* tuned to all the notes of the scale and operated by wires and cranks from a central "clavier" bristling with hefty levers and slat-like foot pedals. By punching with his clenched fists and scrabbling with his feet, a good carillonneur can play anything from roundelays to opera. Because a carillon concert takes a deal of punching and scrabbling, carillonneurs have to be husky. Because all carillons are different, and because very little music is written for the carillon, carillonneurs have to be their own composers and arrangers. Even the best bells jangle...