Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tonight at the Peabody Playhouse the Dramatic Club presents as its fifty-fifth production "Straight Scotch" a drama in three acts, by Francis R. Hart, Jr. '27. The play will continue in Boston throughout the week, winding up with a final show on Saturday...
...Familiar Quotations, gave free play to his quotation-loving mind, resulted in a fat, handsome volume that was interesting reading, valuable for reference. The first Bartlett's was published in 1855, when Josiah Bartlett, then a Cambridge, Mass, bookseller, brought out his personal collection of apt phrases to show "the obligations our language owes to various authors for ... familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " By 1891 Bartlett had published nine revisions; the tenth appeared in 1914. Despite its encyclopedic scope, Bartlett's left out Hawthorne, Melville, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, included many forgotten patriots...
...time schedules of battles. Its main contribution is its pictorial demonstrations of both original plans for battles and step-by-step diagrams of the way they worked out. Thus Colonel McEntee exhaustively describes the original von Schlieffen Plan that called for invasion of Belgium, uses nine maps to show what happened when the Marne was reached and changes in the Plan had weakened the German forces. Relying heavily on official reports. Colonel McEntee writes uncritically, only occasionally pinning responsibility for defeats on backbiting officers, interfering politicians...
...Manhattan show of the Empire Cat Club, the Siamese Cat Society of America, and the American Mouse Fanciers' Club, cats, mice and rats were reduced to an uncomfortable common denominator. To naive news reporters who supposed the show would be a one-sided Saturnalian feast, Rev. R. W. Ferrier of Stockport, N. Y., moving spirit of the Mouse Fanciers, boasted: "The rats and mice in this show aren't nervous, as you sentimentally suppose...
...show, however, had one crisis. From among 75 black, blue, red, chocolate, cinnamon, silver, champagne, fawn, and agouti-colored rats & mice, and from 150 white, blue-cream, smoke, red tabby, and tortoise-shell cats, a Siamese named Marvella and a fancy rat named Minnie were chosen to appear together in an amicable picture. When Cat Marvella reached out a tentative paw of friendship. Rat Minnie flew into a huff, sank her sharp teeth into the paw. Marvella whimpered, withdrew her foot...