Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pausing in their eager, pathetic quest for a happy, permanent roost, Mother Carey's cinema chicks scratch up a few adventures that were not of Mrs. Wiggin's planting, but whatever they unearth is homey stuff. Little Peter (Donnie Dunagan) prattles through an experiment in paperhanging with a three-year-old's matchless deviltry; adolescent Gilbert (Jackie Moranj finds his voice cracking just when he needs dignity most; Lally Joy (Virginia Weidler), thrifty Storekeeper Popham's girl, wears her button shoes on the wrong feet every other day to keep the heels from running over...
...Sweet Stuff, 5 ft. 7 in., nine-year-old rattler owned by Dr. Frank Sweet: the Arkansas Rattlesnake Derby; defeating a field of 47 defanged racing snakes who were sent off to a lively start by electrically charged copper wires nailed to the board on which they were placed (in the centre of a circle 500 feet in circumference) ; reaching the circle's edge in 4 min., 55 sec.; at North Little Rock...
...MacPhail's first big innovation-the first major-league baseball game played under floodlights in New York City.* With his customary extravagance, Larry MacPhail had made the baseball game an incidental of the evening's entertainment. He had invited famed Olympic Sprinter Jesse Owens to do his stuff before the game, had hired two fife & drum corps and a couple of brass bands. At 9:45 when the grandstand customers who had paid $1.10 (and the 3,000 bleacherites who had paid 55?) felt that they had just about received their money's worth, the umpire croaked...
...Copley Theatre is currently presenting 100 unidentified actors in "Created Equal," a 27-scene object lesson which uses the entire sweep of American history to put across its democratic moral. It is a Federal Theatre Project show, ably presented; those who like their stuff will enjoy this. Republicans had better go to the movies...
...White House window, and witnessed a terrible crash at the Washington Airport. Most of the conferees knew that only in a dream could anyone see the Washington-Hoover Airport from a White House window, but they knew, too, that Franklin Roosevelt's vision this time contained more probable stuff than most dreams are made of. From bushy-browed Kentucky Congressman Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, came at week's end assurance that every effort would be made to have the Campsprings bill passed this week...