Word: rays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the Assembly filed out of their chamber, some 20 members of the Workers' Alliance charged down from the gallery. Ray Cooke, jobless actor and national treasurer of the Alliance, announced: "There will be no violence. We are all peaceful, but we propose to stay here." By nightfall 50 men, women & children were encamped in the Assembly chamber. Bread and meat were brought in, and sandwiches were made on the clerk's desk. A coffee urn was set up under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. John Spain Jr., Workers' Alliance organizer, took the chair as "Speaker...
...this week, many a member brought his family and friends to see the fun. Besides sightseers, hundreds of jobless had arrived by truck and automobile, jammed State House corridors and the streets outside. From the Assembly floor to the galleries docilely retired all the demonstrators save five led by Ray Cooke. Authorized to state their case, Leader Cooke was promptly shushed when he cried, "I say he's a liar," at an Assemblyman who had charged the demonstrators with being "professional agitators...
...American Provident Society in Manhattan. Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur observed: "The gopher is, par excellence, a saving animal. He stores seeds and leaves in the ground. Perhaps we should consider the gopher and be wise...
...includes the most ornate sets of its kind ever built. It was written by William Anthony McGuire, author of five shows for Ziegfeld, and directed with monumental opulence by Robert Z. Leonard. In addition to three cinema stars, its cast includes three genuine Ziegfeld celebrities (Fanny Brice, Harriet Hoctor, Ray Bolger) and accurate counterfeits of two others: Buddy Doyle as Eddie Cantor and A. A. Trimble as the late Will Rogers. Trimble is a Cleveland map salesman who, often mistaken for Rogers, was last sum mer discovered by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer scouts. The picture will be shown...
Into his own at last comes gangling, homely Ray Bolger, whose feet are loaded with as much "swing" as Benny Goodman's jazzband. In On Your Toes, Bolger has his first chance to establish himself as a definite stage personality rather than a funny Broadway tap dancer. Called upon to impersonate a WPA music teacher who winds up as a master of ballet, his genuine charm and humor are instantly apparent. In fact, he and his teammate, pretty golden Doris Carson, seem to fit into that important theatrical niche vacated by the late Marilyn Miller & Jack Donahue...