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...What has sex, drugs, drunken frolicking, a game show, and music from the 1920s...
...director Jeffrey Rossman's production of The Merchant of Venice, which resembles the Bard's in script alone. Although the program informs us that "the action of the play occurs in the late 1920s" both before and after the stock market crash, the play incorporates such a hodgepodge of artifacts from different decades that it leaves us in no particular location at no particular point in time...
Throughout most of American history, bank failures occurred with dismal regularity, and consumers had no protection from them. Even in the booming 1920s, banks closed at the rate of about 500 a year. The failure rate rose sharply during the four years following the 1929 stock-market crash, when a total of 9,000 banks closed. With the entire financial system in shambles, President Franklin Roosevelt in March 1933 closed all the nation's banks for four days to quell the panic. Institutions declared sound by federal and state officials were reopened, and Congress began writing new banking laws...
...standardized test scores for Grades 1,8 and 11, Reading Expert Jeanne Chall discovered a correlation between textbook quality and learning. "We saw that in the years SAT scores went down," she says, "the year before, textbooks had also declined," The roots of dumbing down go back to the 1920s, when schools began systematic testing of students and concluded that the curriculum was too hard. "They made the curriculum easier," says Chall, "and they made it easier, and they made it easier." The principal target was the textbook, which provides from 75% to 90% of the curriculum content...
DIED. Alberta Hunter, 89, tiny, mellow-voiced blues singer and cabaret artist who in the 1920s became a star of low-life Chicago bars and in the 1930s of Europe's nightspots, then enjoyed a second successful singing career in her 80s; in New York City. She performed with Jazz Age greats like Louis Armstrong, and wrote her own numbers, including Down Hearted Blues, made famous by Bessie Smith. After her mother's death in 1954, she abruptly stopped singing and became a practical nurse until forced to retire by hospital administrators who thought...