Word: putting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writes letters, attends to odds & ends. From 11:30 to 3:30 she rehearses a new play. There is no time out for luncheon?she eats raw eggs and drinks coffee on the go. From 3:30 to 5:30 she rehearses an old play which is being put back in repertory. Then there is a half-hour before dinner for interviews or seeing friends. After dinner she naps for a half-hour before going to her dressing room for the evening's appearance. For efficiency's sake she lives on the roof of her theatre, with her four dogs...
...stock-companies in which his father and mother had parts. When he was 11, they needed someone to play an old man. The thin boy with his piping voice made up well in the part. When he was a little older he worked in art theatres. Sam Harris put him on contract. He made hits in such plays as We Americans and Four Walls. He was pleased with Seven Faces because it gave him a chance to exercise his hobby?facial makeup. He likes fights, football games, concerts, is bored by tennis, can play the violin. His two brothers...
Harvard wanted to save its regulars for Yale but had to put them in to beat a tough, unmannerly little team from Worcester, Mass. Harvard 12, Holy Cross...
...Atlanta, Ga., one Helen Smith told a housekeeper that she was a police officer so that she might enter the house, put in a telephone call free of charge...
...American Caravan, first appearing in 1927, put out by its present board of editors and Critic Van Wyck Brooks, aimed to provide a "literary ferment" by publishing samples of the more advanced American literature, which otherwise readers of the Red Book might never know existed. The scheme took. The American Caravan has become an annual fixture. Among its contributors have been: Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Scott, Morley Callaghan, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Paul Green. Authors Evelyn Scott and Paul Green are again represented in the present edition...