Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...historic honor. Last week President Coolidge favorably entertained a suggestion from Kansas Citizens that the Republican Party's 75th Anniversary be celebrated this year. The President did not, however, go so far as to agree that the celebration should be held in Kansas City's Convention Hall, scene of the Hoover nomination. He wished to consider the claims of Jackson and Ripon...
...Subway. Six years ago able Playwright Elmer Rice (The Adding Machine, Street Scene) tried to peddle this play. Twice it went as far as the casting process. Never, until last week, was it produced, except for a brief presentation at the Cam bridge Festival Theatre in England. Many a worse play has been produced, but this is not another Street Scene, save in method. It is a cameractual dissertation on life in the metropolis. Sophie Smith (Jane Hamilton) doesn't mean to be bad, but she permits herself to be seduced by an artist. When she finds...
...passing of Memorial Hall as the scene of the Junior Dance will cause little lamentation among undergraduates. Since the affair was first held there several years ago its quality in every way has been going from bad to worse. So now if the traditional function itself is to be kept alive for another year, the Union or a Boston hotel are the only alternative locales...
Present was Thomas W. Lament, partner of Mr. Morgan, and designated as his alternate. Absent was Thomas Nelson Perkins, designated by Mr. Young as his alternate. In significance and setting, the scene may be likened to an audience with Cesare Borgia or Lorenzo the Magnificent. Unfortunately for the dramatic effect no one was poisoned...
...afternoon two child's nurses push perambulators upon the scene. "Three-fawty-six. Yeah. This heah's the place." Fascinated they stand, gibbering, comparing the scene with a tabloid's composograph of the murder...