Word: rans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mild, mustached Pittsburgh lawyer named Charles Alvin Jones. They also supported Philadelphia's mud-slinging ex-Republican Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson against Governor George Earle for the Senatorial nomination. To add to the confusion, Governor Earle's ousted State's Attorney General Charles J. Margiotti ran for Governor...
...season's 96 productions, some 50% were flops, however, while 19 shows ran 100 performances or better. The general average of 53.4 performances (as of June 1) creditably topped last season's average...
...season produced no first-rate comedy, and, though its biggest guns were all on the serious side, no important play with social significance. (Of Mice and Men and Golden Boy had social material, but no major social theme.) But social significance ran away with the musical field, providing a tense, pounding strike drama in The Cradle Will Rock, a fresh, spirited revue in Pins and Needles. Best of the straight musicals: Hooray for What!, thanks to the clowning of Ed Wynn, the music of Harold Arlen...
Swordsman Bourdet is best known in the U. S. for his Lesbian play, The Captive, produced in Manhattan in 1927 and subsequently banned by the police. Swordsman Bernstein is best known for his play The Thief, which ran on Broadway for nine months in 1907-08, has been twice revived. His Melo, produced in Manhattan in 1931, was last year made into the cinema Dreaming Lips, starring Elisabeth Bergner...
Each week, Funnyman Fred Allen presents on his Ipana, Sal Hepatica hour a Person You Didn't Expect to Meet. Last week the person was 15-year-old Joseph Becker, who described how he ran his Bronx Baby Minding Service. One of the people who thus unexpectedly met Joseph Becker was New York's License Commissioner Paul Moss, who three days later summoned the young impresario, told him it is against the law to run an employment agency without a license. "I'll start another career," said Joseph Becker...