Word: ups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mr. Wells then proceeded to quote a "trial statement of the rights of man, brought up to date," which he and friends had drafted. The wording was carefully aimed at German hearts and heads, to persuade them that Great Britain claims for Germans more than Adolf Hitler is giving them...
1) With the new season abnormally slow in starting, there were fewer shows than usual to divide the take. 2) With a war on in Europe, many Manhattanites stayed home, many expatriates returned to Manhattan. 3) Fed up on the World's Fair, New Yorkers developed theatre appetites. 4...
The answer was not that Chicago had lost its mind, but that the play's leading man was acting up. Moreover, he was not just any leading man, but the great John Barrymore-sometimes ill, sometimes tight, but always a trouper. Many a night he has rolled to the...
Proving as great an improviser as he was once an actor, he has turned the theatre into ad-Liberty Hall. He says anything that comes into his head. When he is well wound up, My Dear Children may bumble on till after midnight. Once a fire engine sounded in the...
Sometimes, when he can't remember his lines, he delivers an address on how embarrassing it is to lose your memory. Once, unable to stand up, he played all through the show sitting down. Another time, when he couldn't even issue from dressing room to stage, he...