Word: presented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the 53rd annual Cruft's was leld in Islington without mild little Show man Cruft, who died last fall at the age of 86. Uninvited but prominently present was a group of unemployed, who paraded car rying banners which read: "The dogs are O. K. - judge our condition." Also on hand, "to carry on the show on the lines he want ed," was 66-year-old Widow Cruft, who like her late husband, keeps...
British censorship taboos ridiculing any living person on the stage. Ridiculing the King and Queen would strike most Britishers as unthinkable. Yet London is at present laughing its head off at a play whose characters, though not actually named, unmistakably include King George, Queen Elizabeth, Chamberlain, Hitler, Mussolini and the "Cliveden...
...enough to announce his future plans: a repertory company to make two Shaw pictures a year and, in 1940, a film biography of Amelia Earhart, to be made with the assistance of her husband, George Palmer Putnam, and a score by Conductor Leopold Stokowski after the expiration of his present 18-month contract with Walt Disney...
...stuffed shirt, but just to make sure, recent biographers have stripped him down to his gaunt ribs. With The Hidden Lincoln, published last year on Lincoln's birthday, Emanuel Hertz identified himself as one of Lincoln's most active denuders. This year, again as a birthday present, Hertz has the grace to throw around Lincoln's bony shoulders a vast mantle of myth. It fits no better than Lincoln's baggy suits did, but as Editor Hertz knows, no editorial tailor will ever be able to fit formal clothes on that great torso...
...unlikely last night that the University would take a part in an intensive lobbying campaign to swing three or four votes before the measure is brought up again on the floor. In Thursday's balloting only 12 Representatives were not present, but the Massachusetts Civic League, leaders of outside pressure for repeal were confident that they would turn the tide in today's roll call...