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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blondie's Big Deal" inserts itself on the same bill, and is noteworthy for a truly obnoxious business man named Mr. Radcliffe and the first post war use of a piece of beef-steak to soothe a blackened eye. If you enjoy the repeated sight of mail men being demolished by an onrushing Dagwood, this is for you. Otherwise, a short call to the respective theaters will enable you to miss...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...players hope to use many of the same costumes worn in Plautus's "Mostelaria," given 13 years ago as part of the Tercentenary celebration, but will dispense with the classical masks used in that production...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Latin Play Since 1936 Boasts Plautus, Laughs, Girls | 3/18/1949 | See Source »

Between acts last night I jotted the following onto my program: "If you'll excuse an expression I use, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love with a wonderful guy." These emphatically joyful words are from one of Mary Martin's songs in "South Pacific"; to see and hear her sing them is to see and hear at her very best one of the few genuine stars on the American musical stage today. Miss Martin's contribution to the show is prodigious, and I shall return...

Author: By Joel Raphaelson, | Title: The Playgoer | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

...hectic third period two minor fights broke out, Kittredge and Tom Moseley being the Crimson players involved, but no penalties were called. For the record no penalties being called seemed to be the order of the day in New Haven, as Yale players made copious use of the elbow as an offensive weapon and both sides engaged in aimless tripping and charging...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Six Tops Yale, 8-3, Will Tackle Indians Tonight | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...McDowell unfortunately used highly dubious methods to try to got rid of the woman who was his opposite in penal philosophy. It might be fairer to the Commissioner to say that he allowed his deputy to use these methods. The activities of Frank Dwyer were continually on the lowest level. He never explained how two Boston newspapers obtained his false and sensational "report" last fall which made the Reformatory look like a riotous Bedlam. His means of gathering "evidence" were repugnant, to put it mildly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Van Waters' Victory | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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