Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truck which carries all the property as well as most of the actors and actresses will serve as the stage and will be draped to resemble, a bedroom or a garden as the script demands. In the play, Bernard Shaw invokes all his dry humor against the fanfare of war mock bravery, and the gold buttons. In case of rain the performance will be held indoors in Sanders Theatre. Two years ago when the Jitney Players almost 500 spectators, summer school students and public attended...
...farm. Thence last week the Clan O'Connell directed negotiations for its scion's return. Obeying the kidnappers' instructions, the names of three sets of intermediaries, 31 in all, were published in code in Albany and New York newspapers. The intermediaries were cabaret operators, ex-beer truck drivers, saloon waiters, tipsters and other questionable characters-all friends of the democratic O'Connells. Neither the district attorney's office, local or state police, nor the dozen Department of Justice agents sent to Albany specially by Attorney General Cummings at the request of New York...
...unique entertainment will be provided for the Summer School on Monday evening, July 31, when the Jitney Players camp in the Yard in front of Widener to give Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man." The stage truck forms the little theatre and the truck drivers, mechanics, wardrobe mistresses, and canvas men, serve as actors and actresses. For ten years this versatile troupe has been travelling every summer playing for audiences ranging from professors to cowboys...
...little chance to see Shaw will enjoy this selection in which the Irishman arrays his wit against war and heroics, and points out that gold braid does not change human nature. When Captain Bluntschil climbs into the heroine's boudoir he does so over the hood of the truck which at night is effectively disguised...
...what are called erosion works. Every week-end 50% of the camp personnel is required to remain in camp at all times in case of a fire outbreak. A "fire suppression" crew of 24 C.C.C. men are on duty at all hours to answer fire calls with a fire truck...