Word: webb
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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STRATEGY IN HANDLING PEOPLE?Ewing T. Webb & John J. B. Morgan?Boulton, Pierce...
...cozy, book-filled house at Passfield Corner, Liphook, Hampshire live Sidney and Beatrice Webb, foremost economists of the British Labor Party. Their telephone number is "Passfield 6," telegraphic address "Passfield," and he is the First Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner. Last week the wrath of millions of Jews was loosed upon this spindly-shanked bee-bellied, goat-bearded little scholar. Reason: potent Lord Passfield in his official capacity as Secretary of State for the Colonies had, just restated the Palestinian policy of His Majesty's Government in these terms...
Musical-EARL CARROLL VANITIES (dirty), FINE & DANDY (Joe Cook), GARRICK GAIETIES (youthful), GIRL CRAZY (Gershwin Music), PRINCESS CHARMING (Jeanne Aubert), THE SECOND LITTLE SHOW (pleasant), THREE'S A CROWD (Libby Holman, Clifton Webb, Fred Allen...
Three's A Crowd has for its principals the triple-threat team of last year's Little Show: nimble, spindle-shanked, emaciated Clifton Webb; droll, ready-voiced Fred Allen; mellifluous, primordial Libby Holman So excellent is the work of these three performers that the framework of the show seems almost negligible. Best scenes of the headliners...
...Clifton Webb, staggering around a weird barroom full of grotesque, masked figures, some of whom sway in cadence on rockered bar stools, some of whom drink from gargantuan champagne glasses filled by two-headed attendants. Climax comes when Mr. Webb seizes and strips one of the patrons, rushes her offstage...