Word: thees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Post-Dispatch for a discussion of the U. S. economic situation. Editorial: no award. Reporting: deferred. Cartoon: $500 to John Tinney McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune for "A Wise Economist Asks a Question." Drama: $1,000 to George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind and Ira Gershwin for Of Thee I Sing, obviously the year's foremost Broadway production, to the Pulitzer Board a "biting and true satire on American politics." Novel, History, Biography, Poetry: respectively to Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, General John Joseph Pershing, Henry Fowles Pringle, George Dillon...
...discussing the selection of "Of Thee I Sing" as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in the field of the drama, K. B. Murdock '16, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, said, "The selection of the play seems to me an excellent one and a proof that the life and reality of "Of Thee I Sing" is more acceptable to the public at the present time...
...Edwards started "School Days" it was too much for them. They all started singing. They sang "You're My Everything" with Harry Warren, "Charmaine" with Erno Rapee, "Body & Soul" with Johnnie Green, "I'll See You Again" with Noel Coward, "My Song" with Ray Henderson, "Of Thee I Sing" with George Gershwin, "Old Man River" with Jerome Kern. Through it all little Irving Berlin was flying all over his keyboard with the most elaborate gestures. But people sitting near him could see that he was playing in cinema fashion, not touching the keys. When his turn came...
...Mielziner was taken up by the New York Theatre Guild. Since then he has designed sets for 56 productions, a list including such memorable and diverse productions as The Guardsman, The Wild Duck, Strange Interlude, Street Scene, first, second and third Little Shows, The Barretts of Wimpale Street, Of Thee I Sing, Bloodstream (see p. 45). More important to last week's exhibition was the fact that Jo Mielziner is not only a sound stage designer but also a facile, amusing, often brilliant draughts man. Robert Edmond Jones's completed sets are generally more effective than his sketches...
...popular records are not so popular this year as usual. Those selling best are from the musicomedies Face the Music (Irving Berlin), Hot-cha (Brown & Henderson), Of Thee I Sing (George Gershwin). Despite Depression there is a steady demand for symphonic records, but radio quickly kills many a good domestic popular tune...