Word: shaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traded in the first year for a season ticket produced a litter the second year and started a profitable little sideline in hams. Today, as in the beginning, neither actors nor playwrights receive any cash. To such playwrights as Robert Sherwood, Noel Coward, Maxwell Anderson and Vegetarian George Bernard Shaw have gone hams for royalties. Shaw refused his, demanded spinach instead. Among dozens of productions, most unusual is a hillbilly version of Romeo and Juliet, with the feuding Montagues and Capulets looking more like Hatfields and McCoys. To Porterfield, the highest compliment his theatre has been paid is that...
Other popular records of the month: Day |n-Day Out (Artie Shaw; Bluebird). Rube Bloom's popular-melody-of-the-month played by a sound dance band...
...fine playing done this year both on records and in person by a great many bands. Among the crop of new outfits, trombonists Jack Teagarden and Jack Jenny and pianist Teddy Wilson have units worth watching . . . The public's taste in jazz has kept on improving; consequently, Mr. Shaw is finding things just a bit more difficult. His tripe isn't quite as easy to pan-handle this year . . . Benny Goodman has broken the biggest unwritten law in jazz by having a colored man as a regular member of his band. Fletcher Henderson was the choice. The idea is fine...
...thorough analysis of the Communist position on the designs of Hitler and the Chamberlain Munich group, which the Crimon dismisses without any examination, an analysis substantiated in whole or in part by such prominent non-Marxists as George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and Lloyd George, is being prepared for the campus. (signed) The Executive Committee of the Harvard Young Communist League...
General College's dean is squarejawed, 46-year-old Malcolm Shaw MacLean, who had been a cowhand, college teacher and night editor of the Minneapolis Tribune before he began to build his new kind of college, which he calls "The University of Tomorrow." Believing that college courses had become too specialized for most students, he taught his misfits such broad subjects as biography, "euthenics" (problems of the home). He also undertook to find out all he could about his students-their home life, incomes, diversions, problems, hopes. But Dr. MacLean soon decided that knowing his students' present status...