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...Group Theatre has been social-minded ever since its inception in 1931. To put on a theatrical fireball which was too hot for it to handle officially, the Theatre Guild in 1929-30 employed a subsidiary, the Guild Studio, to do Red Dust and Roar China, two plays fresh from Moscow. Following year, with Guild money and a Guild script, the Group Theatre, mostly Guild alumni, evolved from the Guild Studio. It presented The House of Connelly as its first play. The social implications concerned the deterioration of Southern landowners. A more sardonic aspect of the U. S. scene...
...contest, has invented some new stage machinery and sound effects that don't work properly. The audience begins to arrive and the great citizens reclaim their pillows. White-robed thousands stream in to fill the amphitheater row by row up to the top. At last a trumpet blows, the roar of sound fades into silence--and Medea begins her frightening cry against the fate of woman...
...Hang the Kaiser." Last week Oldster Lloyd George, now 72 and leader of a Liberal party of four M.P.'s,† decided that what Britons want today is "The New Deal." In a rousing speech at Bangor, where stanch Welsh neighbors can always be counted on to roar approval, Orator Lloyd George proposed to apply to Britain substantially the Roosevelt remedies (including a budget unbalanced by colossal public works) and appealed for support from all parties...
...accustomed were correspondents to thinking of Mussolini as anti-French at this time that one great U. S. news service put a dispatch on the wire which caused editors to headline: ITALY HA-HA'S FRENCH AMITY. Half Million Fascists Roar at Mussolini's "Joke...
...Premier, white and shaken, called in his executive council. The roar of the sheiks pounded through the windows. Finally, the Premier went out and told the sheiks that the Government would distribute the $500,000 among the villages. "Now please," he finished, "go home quickly and tell your tribes the good news...