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Actress Helen Hayes (Victoria Regina) worded her address of welcome solemnly: "The Council feels that perhaps the theatre has been backward in meeting new conditions, in adapting its methods to a changed and changing world. It may be that [workers in the theatre] have not been sufficiently wide awake; they have not seized or created opportunities to resort to strategy and salesmanship; to develop new audiences; to stimulate dramatic output and to reshape the physical conditions in existing theatre. Much ground may have been lost but one proven fact remains and that fact is thoroughly encouraging: THE DEMAND FOR DRAMA...
...risen for the first time in six years was tempered by the realization that the rise amounted to iff per week per member. In his annual report President Ernest Philip Pfatteicher flayed much, including the "growing practice" of holding funerals in funeral parlors, which he called "a step backward from the Christian standpoint." President Pfatteicher also observed: "The Church has undoubtedly lost much of its onetime prestige in metropolitan centres in which discouraged churchmen have chosen to 'let George do it,' and by 'George' we mean snapshot Federations, semi-scientific social welfare groups and politicians...
...that June our Spring had seemed to throng Until the year was just a backward glance...
...what a big mouthful she is taking, on Emilie's left is Y(pronounced "c") vonne, then comes Annette, and finally Cecile. (Meanwhile, the Doctor enters the room). As they run towards the good Doctor, Emilie is first, then Annette, then Marie, next Cecile, and last of all little, backward Yvonne...
Five months ago Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art crowned its notable 1936-3 7 season with a comprehensive exhibit of the very latest artistic wrinkle, Surrealism. With a vertiginous backward leap 200 centuries into the Fourth Ice Age, the Museum last week wound up its season by presenting an extraordinary collection of Prehistoric Rock Pictures. Director Alfred Barr Jr. saw no paradox. He recalled that many cave decorations were magic symbols to help the painter with his hunting, and thus "today walls are painted so that the artist may eat," whereas "in prehistoric times walls were painted...