Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example we can at least show them the possibility. We, too, have a stake in world affairs...
They shortly learned why. Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins had advised Mr. Noble to find an excuse to show himself to the Press. Reason: Mr. Noble was about to become not only big news but a big figure in Hopkins' appeasement of U. S. Business. Ed Noble next day resigned from his $12,000-a-year job at CAA to take a $1-a-year job as executive assistant to the Secretary. With Ed Noble in mind, Franklin Roosevelt simultaneously asked Congress to create a new title: Under-Secretary of Commerce. Explained Harry Hopkins, greeting his Republican...
...this phantasmagoria, from beneath this flood of (to most of the audience) incomprehensible Greck came a show, a swell show, a hit! There was none of the respectful boredom with which the audience greets far too many Classical Club productions. Instead the stiff-shirted, bespectacled audience let down their back hair and roared with laughter, applauded like...
...brilliant success of the show the cast is mainly responsible. Their enthusiasm, their esprit de corps, their sense of comedy, all made the audience forget they didn't know Greek and have a grand time anyway watching some of the best horse-play this side of Broadway, a Sophic Tucker version of a Greek poem, an angel on roller-skates, a Heracles in striped pyjamas, and above all, Harvard as the Cloudcuckootown! Backing up the cast was an original musical score and masks, costumes, backdrops, done with skill and rare humor. Congratulations should also go to a gentleman named Aristophanes...
...Winthrop Common Room last night a typical Harvard show was presented. It was written by undergraduates, and it was acted by undergraduate hams. It contained a dull first act, an hilarious second act, and a riotous third act, took a lot of stoking to get up steam, but the audience loved it anyhow...