Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unable to find a student-written play the Dramatic Club will introduce to America James Bridie's "Jonah and the Whale," a comedy fresh from London's Westminster Theatre. Mr. Bridie is an exponent of the Irish Dramatic School, and has written among other plays the well-known "Tobias...
...complicated nature of the production, which calls for a whale's belly as one of the six scenes, demands skill of all sorts. The Dramatic Club is on the hunt for electricians, carpenters, stage-designers, publicity agents, property men, business managers, and patronesses. On December 10, 11, and 12 the play will show at the Peabody Playhouse, Boston...
...first case is the funniest, and from it you may gain an idea of the manner of all the rest. It is "Tiurib, Rumble, and Others v. The King and Queen"--Fish Royal. Tinrib, Rumble and others bring suit against the King and Queen for the removal of a whale which has been cast ashore near the town of Pudding Magna. The whale, according to ancient decree is fish royal and belongs to their majesties. Consequently the inhabitants of Pudding Magna are not going to take matters into their own hands, although "all fishing was suspended in Pudding Bay; Pudding...
This left open the problem of w?ho is going to man the ships. In London soap circles, it was said that, while enough British seamen trained in whaling simply do not exist to man the British whaling fleet today, it could perfectly well be sent to Southern waters with British crews who could learn to hunt whales as they went along. In case the British whaling ships actually are sent south now with green crews, Norwegian whalers vowed last week that they will send their ships and experienced crews speeding ahead to the Antarctic and start a free...
...Kingdom of Norway's latest note to the British Empire, Oslo again demanded limitation of the annual whale-oil haul to 2,265,000 barrels, whereas British soap makers insist on 2,529,000. Even more vital, Norway claimed, is the need of fixing quotas for each expedition and preventing these quotas from being transferred or juggled from one expedition to another. Said the Norwegian note: "This is the only means of preventing the extermination of the whale...