Word: relief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stage cabaret dancers, unlovely, bawling, quarreling; on-stage cabaret dancers, lovely, smiling, gracious. Into this perennially intriguing background, stalk gangsters, murder, revenge, police, nicely offset by racy comic relief and a love affair between the show- off "hoofer" and his dancing sweetheart. The cast knows the life it is portraying; the authors know the life they are staging. The result is a meticulously realistic production, faithful even unto the garrulous hoofer's discarding his trousers before an unperturbed sweetheart...
Number 7. Another English thriller has visited tired Broadway. Number 7 is the address of a forsaken tenement building which, in the course of a chilling melodrama, houses Scotland Yard detectives, criminals, innocents, relief comedians, all bent upon recapturing the Duchess's stolen jewels. Weird entrances and exits are effected through skylights, windows, doors. Eden Gray, as heroine, lends a touch of beauty. The play, though strictly according to formula, is fairly exciting...
...learned to chitchat, and last week he attended a garden party of some 60 prairie editors who quizzed him on baptism and similar subjects. No religio-infantile authority, Mr. Jardine shifted the conversation to a region where he felt at home-farming, and even then delivered no farm relief oration, but, on the contrary, brought agriculture down to a game as simple as parchesi...
...Lawrence, Kan., a dashing young Army officer taught her to ride horseback and do higher mathematics. This officer has since been known as Gen. John J. Pershing and while he was helping to conduct the War, Dorothy Canfield did "the steady, quiet work of holding life together" in relief stations behind the lines. She is a Ph. D., having studied at Ohio State University (during the presidency of her father, Dr. James Hulme Canfield) and at Columbia University. She married John Redwood Fisher, a Columbia football captain. With her artist mother, she has spent years abroad. In Rome she knew...
...life, is really the offspring of a successful manufacturer. Everyone rejoices when Sunshine wages a stern, successful battle for the idealized halo of his wife's memory and preservation of his home life. Actor Heggie saves the sentimentality from the shoals of ridicule. But the comic relief is too hopelessly trite for successful navigation...