Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Printed on the program at all such revues as this is a statement that the producer can alter the sequence and quantity of the acts at each performance in his attempt to weed out the least successful and achieve the best balance. Even though this does entail much furious program flurrying the patron curious enough to like his entertainers identified (obviously a hold-over from the days of vaudeville when the names of the various acts were printed on placards at the side of the stage), we have all come to accept it as an inherited civic calamity, like Curley...
...Longuet, her servant girl Helene Demuth and her famed husband Karl Marx. Now & then a Communist or Socialist deputation stops by to pay its respects and leave behind a wreath. Otherwise the grave of the man whom both Communists and Socialists claim as their spiritual father is neglected and weed-grown. Its official custodian, another Marx grandson named Edgar Longuet, lives far away in a Paris suburb...