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...well as rigid. Like Marie Dressier and Polly Moran, Edna Mae Oliver is an oldtime actress who, with the disappearance of exterior attractions, has had ample time to perfect her comedy technique. Among other members of the jury are Kitty Kelly, who uses the expression "Go milk a duck," and Ken Murray as a real estate salesman...
...doing magnificent things on the stage of the Bourg Theatre. After one season in Detroit, Jo Mielziner was taken up by the New York Theatre Guild. Since then he has designed sets for 56 productions, a list including such memorable and diverse productions as The Guardsman, The Wild Duck, Strange Interlude, Street Scene, first, second and third Little Shows, The Barretts of Wimpale Street, Of Thee I Sing, Bloodstream (see p. 45). More important to last week's exhibition was the fact that Jo Mielziner is not only a sound stage designer but also a facile, amusing, often brilliant...
...milk a duck-expression of annoyance. (Vanderbilt...
...passage of this basically important legislation made two triumphs in as many weeks, for that white-haired old Nebraskan, Senator George William Norris, who is not in the habit of winning victories. Last fortnight he got through Congress his constitutional reform abolishing the "lame duck" session of Congress.? In Senator Norris' patience there is an Oriental quality which takes no heed of time to accomplish its purpose. For a full decade he worked to enact the "lame duck" amendment. His advocacy of anti-injunction labor legislation is of almost as long
...constitutional amendments proposed by Congress have failed of State ratification.* Unless three-fourths of the State Legislatures ratify this latest proposal within seven years, it will lapse, becoming null and void. Virginia's hasty ratification started a race among the States to tack the "Lame Duck'' Amendment to the Constitution after the one providing for woman suffrage. Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, Mississippi, Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, Illinois, Rhode Island and Connecticut, all with legislatures sitting, jockeyed for second and third honors in performing a Federal function. Nebraska's Senator George William Norris, who has fought...