Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Week End. Austin Parker, Saturday Evening Post writer, conceived this first offering of Bela Blau, Inc., prosperous and principled new producers (TIME, May 13). Among his characters he included a drunkard who, as played with strange understanding by Hugh O'Connell, is one of the season's great. Inebriates are of course familiar to the stage, but the antics of most of them seem like distorted mummery beside Mr. O'Connell's gentle and imaginative euphoria. As a chubby, post-War wastrel at a houseparty in Barbizon (just outside Paris) he may be found continuing...
...Last week revivals of three greatly successful plays opened in Manhattan...
...four weeks they had been fed by the British Government, a fact not gen erally known. Government rations included meat, vegetables, bread and milk daily for all. Then the task of feeding refugees was shouldered by the Palestine Zionist Executive, repository of the huge relief contributions from abroad. Despatches last week told that the P. Z. E. at once cut out meat, vegetables and milk from the rations given to adults. Each received daily, instead, half a tin of sardines, half a loaf of bread. Milk was issued only to babes, one cup per day. Repeatedly Jewish refugees...
...these facts tended to be played down by loyal Jewish correspondents in Palestine until last week. Then suddenly the story spilled out. Everything was all right now-Pincus Rutenberg had taken charge...
...having done his policeful best in Moscow to catch and hang Lenin and Trotsky. Soon a syndicate of British and Zionist capitalists sent him out to found the Palestine Electric Corp. (TIME, March 4). Today he is the Samuel Insull (see p. 52) of the Near East. Last week he dramatically intervened in the Palestine relief muddle, arranged with quiet efficiency that the relief fund will henceforth be administered by the Jewish National Council of which he is chairman. Despatches sounded the knell of half-boxes of sardines, hailed the resurrection of fresh meat and vegetables...