Word: refurnished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jumbo is no cheap production. Mr. Rose got the peerless team of Rodgers & Hart to write his score, able Albert Johnson to do his sets and to refurnish (cost: $40,000) the fusty interior of North America's best-known show house (rental: $104,000 a year). He hired actors like Jimmy Durante, Arthur Sinclair, Blanche Ring for his star parts. And, catching them when they needed money, he contracted with Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur to write a libretto on which he could string his circus acts, stars and tunes. Messrs. Hecht & MacArthur repaired for a fortnight last...
...into exile, their kingdoms passed away. And now with the ebb tide of 1932, it has become apparent that not even the quicksands of democracy have been made safe for the world. One monarchical nation, however, escaped the death threes of 1918 and is at present seeking to refurnish the pageantry of its government...