Word: projected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looks awful. It's in horrible shape. Why don't you get a WPA project down here...
...Chicago last week another blow was struck at the crumbling conspiracy of silence about syphilis. The Federal Theatre Project presented a propaganda play on the subject called Spirochete. Tracing the history of the disease and its cure from 1493 to 1937, boldly flashing microscopic plates showing the spirochete, or spiral syphilis germ, on a screen, the play for the most part proved good theatre, evoked a magnificent first-night response...
When white-haired Bishop William Newman Ainsworth of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South looked about him in Macon, Ga. last month, he was displeased. Throughout the South, Methodists were engaged in an eleventh-hour battle to defeat a project dear to Bishop Ainsworth's heart-reunion of 8,000,000 U. S. Methodists into one great church. In less than three years, Northern Methodists, Methodist Protestants and six out of seven Southern Methodist conferences had approved a plan of union drawn by a commission mission of which Bishop Ainsworth was a member (TIME, Aug. 25, 1935). Ailing...
...Prairie, TIME, Dec. 13) was last week collecting in Hollywood 200 midgets. Their assignment: an all-midget, musical Western, The Terror of Tiny Town. Quickest to follow Producer Buell's knee-high lead was Dr. Eugene Frenke, producer husband of Actress Anna Sten. His pint-sized project: Half-Buck Rides Again...
...announced that The Fifth Column had been sold to Joseph Losey. The terms: $1,000 advance royalty, production by October 15. Losey, 29, is the husband of Dressmaker-Author Elizabeth Hawes (Fashion Is Spinach), has been stage manager for Jed Harris and Gilbert Miller, director for the Federal Theatre Project. Mentioned hopefully for lead in The Fifth Column: Cinemactor Gary Cooper, who "would be ideal...