Word: potter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...topper thus far, thus spake McSheehy in debate against the removal of bodies from a potter's field...
...MERLE POTTER Drama Editor The Minneapolis Tribune Minneapolis, Minn...
...From New York City hurriedly flew Jack Kirkland, author of Tobacco Road, to be in at the kill. In Minneapolis crowds stormed the box office, rushed the theatre, packed its seats, clogged its aisles. While the audience waited, happy as clams at high tide, for the curtain to rise, Potter got more and more Jeetery backstage, needed the whole company to drape his rags about him, suffered trying to chaw plug-tobacco behind stage whiskers...
Then the curtain went up, and the audience broke into a roar while for three minutes Potter sprawled on a porch and leaned against a pillar, mumbling any spare cusswords he remembered to cover up any regulation dialogue he forgot. After that, Barton took over the part...
Next morning Critic Barton complimented Actor Potter on a "fine, if fragmentary, job," expressed the desire to "see more of his work." But for Potter there wasn't going to be any more. "The place for the critic," he announced with emphasis, "is behind the typewriter...