Word: provincetown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national director. The survivor of a helter-skelter career that included editorial writing on the New York Post, a year as secretary to the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey before the War, a post-War job as the Nation's foreign correspondent, a term as director of the Provincetown Theatre, Director Alsberg started his big job by picking State directors throughout the U. S., soon had a Writers' Project office in every city of 10,000, at least one writer or field worker in each of the U. S.'s 3,000 counties. State directors included...
...Women's Club, the president of The Bronx Soroptimists and Borough President James J. Lyons-to give "the very first series of Standard Symphonic Concerts ever staged in The Borough of The Bronx." Handsomest Conductor Marrow is a Virginia-born batonist who was once musical director of the Provincetown Players and who, last spring, put on some chamber concerts at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel at which audiences put themselves in fine fettle by drinking and smoking while listening to music by 35 players, mostly from the New York Philharmonic Symphony. Mr. Marrow and the same 35 turned...
Conversation at Midnight brings together a priest, an artist, a writer of advertising copy, a Communist poet, a rich broker, a Liberal dilettant and a slick magazine writer for after-dinner dialog in verse. Poet Millay, who once acted at Vassar and Provincetown, asks her readers to think of her Conversation in terms of the theatre, but she appends an index of first lines so that segments may be read as single poems. Readers will immediately observe 1) that the most feminine living poet has attempted not one but several distinct masculine idioms, with considerable charm but only here...
...Chatham the Little Theatre, at Centerville the Mary Young Theatre (leading lady: Dorothy Stone) start their seasons this week. Provincetown's historic Wharf Theatre, a descendant of George Cram Cook's and Mary Heaton Vorse's old Provincetown Playhouse where Eugene O'Neill's work was first performed, carries on with a ten-week season opening with Leona Powers in Her Master's Voice. Most successful of Cape summer companies is Raymond Moore's Cape Play-house at Dennis. A landscape painter fresh from Leland Stanford, Director Moore served a hitch...
CIRCUS CLUB--Pop Corn, peanuts, Pink lemonade, tanbark, and amusing murals realistically duplicate the atmosphere under the Big Tents. Sally Nye's new three ring circus is well-known to thousands of folk who journey to Provincetown in the summer. For membership and reservations, phone John DEV-onshire...