Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes over Chungking to give the Chinese provisional capital its first raid in almost two years. Three times opposed on their way, only about 30 planes reached the Chungking area, where Chinese pilots took them on. Jap bombs fell outside the city limits, did little damage. Reported ex-Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times: "Among the targets most valiantly attacked . . . were rice fields, vegetable gardens, flower gardens, one dammed-up swimming hole, clumps of bamboo, the mud banks of the Chialing River and the middle of the Chialing River itself. If it were not for the presence...
...sanity. After a year's teaching at Harvard, he went back to Yale to teach for 41 years, found this "an equitable distribution" of his time. In 1895, to a college still devoted to Greek and Latin, he brought the first U.S. contemporary novel course, later added modern drama...
Married. Maria Sieber, 18, daughter of Marlene Dietrich and Rudolf Sieber, onetime Berlin movie director; and Dean Goodman, 23, drama student, department-store employe; in Los Angeles...
Fred Stone always used to say during his musical comedy days that he wanted a crack at the legitimate drama. In his second attempt with "You Can't Take It With You," he carried the complete weight of a show which besides Stone has nothing to offer but a badly frayed script and a conglomeration of poorish actors...
...Shostakovich's first full-length biography (Dmitri Shostakovich by Victor Ilyich Seroff; Knopf; $3), shows its subject to be not only a bespectacled firewarden and heroic musical panegyrist of embattled Russia, but an engaging human being who might have stepped out of the pages of a Chekhov family drama...