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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Called Babes in the Wood, the show might well be mistaken for one of those innocuous fairy tale "pantomimes" so dear to British children of all ages. Produced by the left wing Unity Theatre Club, Inc., Babes in the Wood keeps out of the Lord Chamberlain's censorship clutches by being privately performed before "club members" who pay, not admission, but two shillings extra dues. Partly using the plot of the old fairy tale, Babes in the Wood introduces Chamberlain-umbrella and all -as "The Wicked Uncle," Hitler and Mussolini as "The Robbers." A Cabinet meeting...
...London's great Tate Gallery publicly and prematurely proclaimed him dead of drink. Utriilo was not dead and he was no longer drunk; he was still prodding his imagination (by praying instead of drinking) and painting pictures. In any case, admirers last week remembered incidents which went to show that his imagination needed no prodding, and that no postcard would stay a postcard under his brush. For instance...
...Francisco's Museum of Art, 15 paintings went on show last week celebrating the eccentric, Slavic, bucolic conceits of Marc Chagall, a 51-year-old Russian with a flair for flowery dreams. Typical: Inspiration, showing a youth playing a fiddle with one hand while kneeling on the back of a deer. This is no mean stunt, and as a reward a Christmasy angel is presenting him with a bouquet. Behind is calm blue water with a calm blue couple in a rowboat...
...Someone (by Jack Kirkland & Leyla Georgie; produced by Jack Kirkland) tells of six fly young ladies who, at the turn of the century, made up a Florodora Sextet.* In Act I, along with six swains, they render Tell Me, Pretty Maiden quite fetchingly; then for the rest of the show they gallivant with various admirers whose attentions go considerably beyond candy, books and flowers. One Pretty Maiden goes in for blackmail; another enjoys watching her aged suitor tumble down a flight of steps; a third is kept by a pal of the Mayor's; a fourth gets a venereal...
...point Witness Ecker remarked that "the agent in his canvassing-he is resourceful. . . ." One aspect of Metropolitan agents' resourcefulness was considered next day. The Metropolitan is a mutual company, its policyholders being its shareholders and theoretically therefore electors of the management. Bill Douglas set out to show that this was only theoretical, that mutual management was actually self-perpetuating-just as the Armstrong Investigation concluded over 30 years ago. Noting that in the 23 years since Metropolitan shifted to mutual status the management slate has never been opposed, Bill Douglas further noted that at election time it is customary...