Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copley Theatre is currently presenting 100 unidentified actors in "Created Equal," a 27-scene object lesson which uses the entire sweep of American history to put across its democratic moral. It is a Federal Theatre Project show, ably presented; those who like their stuff will enjoy this. Republicans had better go to the movies...
...attorney for such great corporations as the Pennsylvania Railroad and A. & P. chain stores, is an ardent New Dealer, hardly likely to bring much comfort to the private utilities which TVA opposes. His portrait, as a champion of social justice under the New Deal, was painted into a labor scene in one of the Department of Justice's new murals by his brother, Artist George Biddle...
Chief announced aim of the Franco Tourist Office was to demonstrate that back of the front all is normal in Rightist Spain. Unannounced aim: to get needed foreign exchange for Rightist Spain's war. Tour No. 1 will run from burned Irun, on the French border, to Oviedo, scene of 15 months' fierce siege. Tour No. 2 will go from Tuy to Santander. Both tours will include such partially or wholly destroyed towns as Eibar, Guernica, Durango, Gijón, each a scene of important military engagements in Generalissimo Franco's last year's wiping...
During a performance of La Boheme in London's Covent Garden, Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli unintentionally lighted a stage stove in the garret scene. Intrepid Gigli, singing like a lark the whole time, edged into the wings, seized a bucket of water, doused the fire...
Carried away by the joyful scene, all thoughts of "Reinhardt" were dispelled from the bosoms of the on-lookers in spite of the fact that the major portion of local police force was parading in the martial turmoil...