Word: stage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the Corporation granted permission to the Rotary International last October to stage its meeting in the old University dining hall, the information was until recently withheld from the officials in charge of scheduling the examinations with the result that full arrangements were made to conduct the tests in the hall. According to G. G. Benedict '23, Assistant Dean in charge of records, the places for holding the examinations have been changed and postcards will be mailed to the men affected by this alteration in plans...
...Guild cities. Among plays to be offered are: Caprice, Major Barbara, Pygmalion, Wings Over Europe, R. U. R., Strange Interlude, Marco Millions, Volpone. A rotational system among the actors will assure each circuit city of the best Guild talent.* No matter what players tread the Guild's stage, stardom is avoided. Names are not posted in lights outside the theatre or in large type in the programs. There are no solo bows, no bows at all until the end of the play, when the entire cast ap pears. Emphasis is on the play, with known and unknown actors striving...
Later "Emperor" Cook received the following telegram: "The political bureau of the Communist party in Great Britain observes your treachery to the workers' cause. It reached a further stage at yesterday's banquet in fawning adulation of a typical representative of the class which battens upon workers...
Furthermore, the railroad juggler usually has the Interstate Commerce Commission shrieking "Drop it! Drop it!" from the front row. So occasionally there is a crash, and bits of dishes and lamp chimneys lie, Humpty-Dumpty like, on the stage floor. Last week the final fragments of one unfortunate juggle went dustbin-bound. The juggler was Leonor F. Loree, able head of Delaware & Hudson. His performance was called The Fifth Trunk Line. The broken pieces were 135,000 shares of Cotton Belt (St. Louis Southwestern R. R.). These shares were sold by the Kansas City Southern to a Manhattan holding company...
...loser was Sir Hugo, however, whose head, though bloodied, remained unbowed. His capitulation, obviously forced, hinted at unspecified outside interests that had compelled the abandonment of a highly reasonable position. "Certain proposals, for which I have made myself responsible, . . . have become the subject of an acute controversy on a stage much wider than that of the company itself. . . . Proposals . . . made with the sole object of increasing the prosperity of the company . . . prompted by my view that the preponderating interests in our great industry should always be in British hands. ... I have always held the view that our scheme...