Word: puppets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Japanese Foreign Office learned that Statesman Stimson had absolutely refused to recognize the puppet régime Japan has set up in Manchuria. Hotly the Foreign Office's press spokesman burst out: "The United States cannot rob us of the fruits of our victory by withholding recognition of the new Manchurian State...
...expert puppet manipulator whose fingers are reputed to be unusually deft with the strings is giving the miniature vaudeville under the auspices of the division of Music for the benefit of the Cambridge Chapter of the MacDowell Colony. The four acts to be presented are "The Two Beans", "A Korean Legend", "The Rabbit Ballet", and "The Punch and Judy Waltz". In "The Rabbit Ballet" four characters appear on the stage simultaneously, an unusual feat...
Fuad, a British puppet, knows that Don Alfonso's wife (who was not reported with him last week) is in her own right a British Princess. In ordering "royal honors" for Alfonso, Puppet Fuad perhaps thought he was being smart, pleasing the British...
...next numbers will be puppet shows managed by C. S. Beech and Vincent Palmer. The first will be a sketch entitled "The Big Fight," the second a number "Dancing Skeletons" that requires expert manipulation. This will be followed by a juggling and cycling act by W. P. Rockwell and F. L. Spreckels...
...play is fast moving and dramatic; the acting good, except for a certain lack of reticence which characterizes the whole production. Russell Hardie, as the sincere, easily duped hero, is excellent, and the publicity manager, William David, who makes everyone his puppet until almost the end, is brilliant. The play's humor, its best recommendation, is raucous rather than subtle. There is an obvious attempt to "play to the orchestra" with weak puns and irrelevant jokes more suited to a musical comedy. Few of them require much mental effort, and yet many of them are really funny...