Word: provincetown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martha's Vineyard. Andiamo beat the other M-boats, when Prestige, after leading half the way, dropped back to finish last in her class. The second day was so foggy the race committee considered calling off the longest leg of the cruise, 73 miles around Cape Cod to Provincetown. When the fog finally lifted, there was almost no wind; the boats drifted along the rough elbow of the Cape till dark. Word came that Michabo had run aground on Shovelful Shoal off the upper tip of Long Island; then that H.G. Leslie's 40-footer Typhoon, mistaking...
...presenting Precedent, Playwright I. J. Golden has turned the stage of the Provincetown Playhouse, experimental theatre where Eugene O'Neill's dramas were first presented, into a soap box. Only thinly disguised, San Francisco is called Queen City; Thomas J. Mooney is called Delaney. Discarding dramatic pretense, Precedent is a biased record of how a traction magnate has Delaney "framed," how the foes of Labor trump up evidence to send Delaney to jail and keep him there in spite of retrials, rehearings, appeals. In the midst of this great legal struggle, Delaney sits alone, an individual almost forgotten...
...Provincetown player, U. S. correspondent with Pancho Villa, Wartime pacifist (expelled from the Harvard Club of New York in 1918), appointed first Soviet Consul in New York City?appointed by Trotsky, rejected by the U. S. State Department...
...Author. Frank Shay, onetime Greenwich Village charter member, lives in Provincetown, Mass., Greenwich Villagers' summer colony. He likes conviviality, and has collected several song anthologies : Iron Men and Wooden Ships, My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions, Drawn From the Wood...
...play was accepted for production by the Provincetown Playhouse in New York this year and was abandoned only when the organization disbanded its production activities. James Light, Director of the Provincetown Playhouse, wrote of the play: 'Honey Holler' is a play of high quality. The characters and their speech constitute a new field in American folk lore. Compared with O'Neill's and Glasspell's beginning its author, Keith Mackaye, is already in the middle of a development and the quality of this play, I am sure, will produce very great works...