Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both at the White House and the Mayflower the show was cut. Omitted from both performances was a sketch, Little Red School House and a ballet, The General Is Unveiled. Omitted at the White House were Sunday in the Park, Men Awake, and What Good Is Love. Omitted at the Mayflower were political songs and skits, Call It Un-American, Four Little Angels of Peace, Mussolini Handicap. FTP Plowed Under, Public Enemy No. 1, and the dance Doing the Reactionary...
Walter Crane's "Hazelford Sketch Book" with many samples from the originals in the Widener Library, will be published today by the John Barnard Associates through the Harvard University Press...
...authoritative and intriguing account of "The Oxford Man in Party Politics." To combat misconceptions about the aristocratic heritage of British university life he cites the fact that at his former alma mater "over half of the undergraduates are in receipt of financial assistance independent of family ties." His sketch of political clubs at Oxford and of students participation in party activities should be of great interest to Harvard men--all too often aloof from "politics...
...young men, none more than three years out of college, were frantically putting together the first issue of the first newsmagazine. A few days earlier someone had remembered that a magazine must have a cover, and an artist had been commissioned to design one. He submitted only a rough sketch. On both sides of a portrait there was to be an elaborate arrangement of sundials, hourglasses, other time-symbols. To suggest the general idea, the artist had sketched in some "spinach." Uncertain about the symbols, the editors decided to use the spinach as a stopgap. Except for minor alterations...
...woke him up and said "Knock, knock." "I am too old for that sort of by-play," Mr. Holton complained to Mitchell. "I do not wear long pants just because they become me." But Author Mitchell hits the authentic Lardner note most strongly in The Pickle Works, a brilliant sketch of Jimmy Durante. nursing a hangover and memories of his youth at a rehearsal, talking himself from gloom to good humor until he launches on a flight of Broadway poetry: "The stage may be the pickle works to some people, but it's a big box of candy...