Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much as $50,000,000 short of the final figure, for as yet nobody knows exactly how much Hetty Green's big cub did leave. According to Texas arithmetic, the Federal Government will collect $20,812,905 in inheritance taxes. Other tax bills: $7,132,000 (New York); $5,809,000 (Massachusetts); $5,335,000 (Florida); $5,326,000 (Texas). Total asked by Federal and State Governments: $44,414,905. If administration of the estate costs $2,000,000, Mr. McCraw figured that the estate will fall short of meeting taxes, but certainly some of the tax bills will...
...five minutes to seven last Sunday evening a squad of actors and a battalion of New York University students, New Jersey high-school children and boys' club members were assembled in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory. In five minutes they would begin to enact the most ambitious radio play ever attempted in the U. S., The Fall of the City. Pulitzer Prize Poet Archibald MacLeish (Conquistador, Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City, Panic) had written it. Director Irving Reis of Columbia's Workshop of the Air had persuaded Orson Welles, one of the country...
While his disappearance is the subject bf frantic New York-to-Hollywood telephone calls, Duncan luxuriates in the simple life at the Schwartzes', drinking water instead of whiskey before breakfast and sleeping in a daybed with Papa Schwartz. When Camille misapprehends the purpose of his lovemaking, he finds himself engaged to her. His extrication and the return of Camille to the husky footballer who really loves her provide further complications which, although not unfalteringly hilarious, disclose an unexpected flair for swashbuckling satire on the part of reedy Actor George Curzon, who last year played a somewhat insipid Parnell...
...problems, is a situation ably handled by Dramatist Wolfson. Hitherto known as an adapter of Left propaganda plays, in Excursion he exhibits a notable capacity for original characterization and narrative. Without sacrificing any of his play's moral values, he manages to bring the Happiness back into New York Harbor after a wild night off Sandy Hook with a small victory for everybody concerned...
Ward Morehouse, a Broadway reporter for the New York Sun, once wrote a play called Gentlemen of the Press. Like many another play concocted by a writer whose chief writing is outside the theatre, this one has discursive charm, not much dramatic impact...