Word: puree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carolan takes over the role of "Captain" Jack Boyle, the tawdry "paycock," and superbly prevents the depravity of his role from becoming lost in its amusing elements. The latter are dangerously prominent, since the first act of the tragedy is pure comedy. Eileen Crowe is superb for the role of "Juno" Boyle, who receives her divinely regal name for the internal reason that everything in her life happened in June, but for dramatic reasons less fortuitous. F. J. McCormick has created his part of "Joxer" Daly, the fawning hanger-on and salve to the Captain's petty pride...
...have never had proved to my satisfaction." says Angna Enters, "that working in tragedy and 'high comedy' requires anything greater than performing on the variety stage. . . . At least, these ordinary vaudeville performers do not get across by special pleading that they are 'pure spirits.' " One thing Mime Enters found in performers like Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson. Jimmy Savo, Moran & Mack and the Fratellinis was timing raised to a high art. She raised it, in some instances, higher. Her use of castanets in a dance-pantomime called Boy Cardinal, composed in 1932, was something Bojangles or even...
Mime Enters is only chilled by what is commonly known as "interpretive dancing." One thing that prompted her to write about her own work was the feeling that "this Pure Dance had been getting away with esthetic murder long enough." But the strongest impulse to express herself otherwise than in painting and pantomime came after she saw the outbreak of the Spanish revolution last year. Back in the U. S. she found herself writing magazine articles, speaking on the radio "as a person about persons," finally eager to speak, as a person, about herself...
...week), finally compromised on $17. Last week the New York State Labor Department, which devises its own working-girl budgets, arrived at the figure of $23.30 per week for a woman living alone. For a girl living at home the estimate was $20.70. This was of course pure theory, since the New York laundry industry for which the budget was prepared pays its female help as low as $6 per week and an average of $13. The board would be quickly put through the wringer if it attempted at one stroke to double any industry's wage scale...
...last week the score of those who took the so-called elixir,* according to the U. S. Pure Food & Drug Administration which wants Dr. Massengill to show cause why he should not be prosecuted for criminal carelessness, stood at: 73 dead "as a direct result of taking the drug," and 20 more dead for whom "it has not yet been established that this drug was exclusively responsible...