Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This vital danger we are trying to meet in the program before you. Fortunately, we are surrounded by old friends and allies, and so we can consider this issue without panic, and calmly plan the measures for developing a scheme of defense that, however remote may be the possibility of danger, is none the less necessary to our national security and status. Let us not brood morbidly over remote perils, but, rather, take a sustained interest in the problem of defense which must be faced...
...opening night of Puzzles of - 1925, Miss Janis' imitations were scheduled (on the printed program) for early in the performance. TIME'S critic walked out of the theatre ten minutes before the final curtain. Because the imitations had not been given at their scheduled time and because they had not been given up to the time of his exit. TIME'S critic ignorantly supposed that they were not given...
...Some, lacking bottles, dropped plates. A red-faced individual at a corner table threw a coin to Tcherkassky; a hundred others with coins, catching the wit of this gesture, also hurled their loose change to him. He sang one song, began another. The uproar continued. But Tcherkassky finished his program...
...when it was being changed from a church to a theatre. A photograph of the oldest Amerecan playbill, printed in 1750, showed how far ahead of Puritanic Boston was New York, since the first Boston theatre, the Federal, dates back to 1794. A copy of the Ford Theatre program for April 14, 1865, was a sharp reminder of Lincoln's assassination...
Lossez' 25-piece orchestra will play 10 program dances before supper, which will be served from 12.30 to 1 o'clock. After supper the orchestra will play continuously until 3 o'clock...