Word: theys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never long absent from it, the Bard has his ups & downs on Broadway. He starts off with the box-office liability of being highbrow, with the box-office asset of commanding a small but steady audience made up largely of: 1) cultists -the kind of people who (depending on their...
Du Barry Was a Lady tells of a washroom attendant who wins $75,000 in a sweepstakes and tries to marry a nightclub singer. He drinks a Mickey Finn intended for his rival, and dreams that he is Louis XV and the singer Du Barry. This permits an unsurpassably false...
Gertrude, the average New Yorker's wife, came from an old New England family. "In Gertrude's home in the South it was felt that she might have done better for herself." They were married as soon as they had the price of an automobile, for "in America...
On Fridays Joe takes his wife to the movies with some friends "from up the road." They gather in Joe's house before the show "so that the men can split a tin of canned beer together." Once a year Joe meets "the alumni of his school fraternity," and...
As with Joe Connolly, one of Gorty's biggest immediate problems was the struck Herex (now merged with the American). When Gorty sat down with the Newspaper Guild in Chicago last July, he let it be known that he was no Guild-hater. Guildsmen watched him chain-smoke 50...