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Word: propsed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before it packed props and departed for the hinterlands, "Personal Appearance" titillated New York appetites for fifteen big, happy months. Brock Pemberton has now fitted Lawrence Riiey's opus with a second cast and loosed its lusty voice from the proscenium of the Plymouth theatre, just recently quieted after the...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/12/1936 | See Source »

Last week in Washington, 1,500 businessmen descended on the Capitol in a fleet of taxicabs to tell Congressmen that they must vote for a two-year extension of NRA. In Manhattan William Green of the A. F. of L. roared to 18,000 clothing workers a threat of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Out on Chickens | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

The acting last night was hampered by the usual distractions of a dress rehearsal, but Miss Clara Butler, playing the lead, gave a more than creditable performance. At home in a lightly dashing role, she carefully ignored for the most part the flickering lights, the misplaced props and the banana...

Author: By O. F. I., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/20/1935 | See Source »

Like last week's other revivals (see cols. 2 & 3), Miss Adams' had its peculiarities. She herself performed not as Viola but in the minor part of Maria. The play was equipped with a prolog and epilog suggested by Miss Adams and written by old-time Dramacritic Walter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Shakespeare in Ogunquit | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

Limited in its experiments by the fact that animals are immune to yellow fever, the commission was forced to consider the theory of an eccentric Scottish medic history. who had an unsubstantiated notion that yellow fever was transmitted from human to human by mosquitoes. The commissioners tested Dr. Carlos Finlay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATRE: New Play in Manhattan: Mar. 19, 1934 | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

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