Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drama of pure Americanism versus nobody quite knew what, packed with sordid procedures, damnable outrages, cries of "Unhand-me-Martin-Dies!" from radicals, and "Let that poor girl go!" from liberals-and all galloping over the cliff at the end of each installment. The Smith Committee hearings were drawing-room comedy...
...Masons bought a block of tenements in South Philadelphia. With another $40,000 and Negro labor they will transform the block into a low-cost housing project for Negroes, with 1-2-3 room, air-conditioned apartments built around a central fresh air court. This community centre is to have a gymnasium, bowling alley, chapel, a social worker in charge. Work was scheduled to start this week...
Alarm gongs clanged violently from lookout to keelson; bugles sounded to-your-stations. On the bridge the young officers put on their earphones and checked with the fire-control room and plotters. Observers focused their binoculars. The T-shaped range finders swung in the sleepy calisthenics of limbering and checking. In the control tower the plotters laid out their instruments-parallel, slide, caliper...
Lancaster, Pa. is a thriving city with 60,000 inhabitants, six movie houses, but no theatre. No road company has played there since 1930. But, thanks to the enterprising Green Room Club of Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, the town is not left playless. Under the direction of scholarly, energetic Darrell Larsen, who has coached plays at F. & M. since 1927, undergraduates produce four shows a season, each running a week. From a male student body of 900,300 try out annually for dramatics-many more than go out for football...
Lancaster girls play the feminine roles in Green Room shows, and costumes are rented; otherwise everything connected with the productions - acting, staging, lighting, scene-designing-is done bythe club itself. About half its audiences are drawn from the campus, the other half from the town...