Word: sobel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lacking has been a concise, up-to-date, inexpensive encyclopedia of the theatre. The Theatre Handbook and Digest of Plays (Crown, $3), out last week, adequately fills the need. It is marred by too much sloppy writing and too many canned opinions; but inside its 900 pages Editor Bernard Sobel-a veteran of Broadway-has crammed a vast amount of useful information about the theatre's thousands of years...
Judge Carr is to be congratulated also upon his unusual grasp of the historical implication of the case. Citing the "Encyclopedia Britannica" and Mr. Bernard Sobel's "Burleycue--An Underground History of Burlesque Days" he announced that "burlesque has changed considerably since the days of Aristophanes and Sheridan." He is further to be congratulated upon his escape from picayuno technicalities in deciding that "it is unnecessary for me to determine the extent of the attire. . . If these were the ones they displayed heads and more or less of the bust. They were slightly clothed...
Frank Greenwood Jewett, Jr. '36 of Minneapolis, Minnesota, has won the Varsity wrestling competition and today becomes second assistant manager while Raymond Sobel '37 of Poughkeepsie, New York has won the competition for Freshman wrestling manager. Jewett will become Varsity manager when a senior...
...Thomas S. Everett '37, Donald W. Fiske '37, Fred P. Glike '37, Lester J. Hershon '35, Edwin A. Hills '37, Gorden S. Hughes '37, Harold E. Jahn '36, John M. Lovejoy '37, Edwin A. Meyer '37, Thomas P. Myles '37, Edwin K. Packard '37, Paul W. Sears '37, Raymond Sobel '37, John L. Stegmaier '37, Joseph G. Sutton Jr. '37, Edward C. Tenney '37, Charles Thorndike...
...Author. Bernard Sobel is at present press agent for Showman Florenz Ziegfeld. He once held the same position for lean Earl Carroll and gained a good deal of his knowledge of Burlesque in the employ of the Brothers Minsky (Abraham, Billy, Herbert & Morton), New York's best known Burlesque impresarios. He was once, his publishers insist, an instructor in English at Purdue University. In the present thick quarto he has assembled a number of photographs of oldtime Burlesque Queens and comedians, larded them with reminiscences of the days when hefty May Howard would not hire any girl who weighed...