Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Theatre, which has three hits in Manhattan: the Living Newspaper ". . . one third of a nation . . .", a smashing exposure of slum conditions; what might be called the Living Pulp Magazine Haiti which, played in Harlem with all the stops pulled out, is whacking good melodrama; Prologue to Glory, no great shakes as a play, but redeemed by the acting of Stephen Courtleigh as the young Abe Lincoln...
...humor or pricked by wit, were far removed from the solemn fudge of the Servant in the House era, made neither God nor Death embarrassing. On Borrowed Time, though pleasant, was very likely the most overrated play of the season. But Our Town (the Pulitzer Prize play), despite a third act which got beyond its depth, squeezed so much honest feeling, poetry and humor into its first two acts as to be, if not technically the season's best play, its most notable event in the theatre. Best play technically: Of Mice and Men, (which won the New York...
...Incorporated this week into Pins and Needles under the tile . . . One Third of a Mitten...
...While the music of Jewish Atonalist Arnold Schönberg was immediately blacklisted, compositions by "Aryan" Atonalist Paul Hindemith have occasionally been heard, those of "Aryan" Atonalist Alban Berg were heard as late as 1934. Russian Modernist Igor Stravinsky is still a popular composer in the Third Reich...
...August 21, 1887. Tim Keefe was pitching against me and he had a lot of stuff but I was no slow poke myself. It was the last of the ninth and New York was leading 4-to-3. Two men were out and there were runners on second and third. A week before I'd busted up a game with a lucky homer and folks thought I could repeat...