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...three-character Voice of the Turtle one better by requiring only two players. He added the comment that "the ultimate peak has yet to be scaled" and that "de Hartog's record will stand for a time." Actually this is no record at all, for Claude Vincent's full-length drama Conscience has only one character. This play was done magnificently last spring in both Boston and New York by one of our greatest actors, Maurice Schwartz...
...full-length mink coat takes up to 80 carefully matched and graded pelts. Each skin is sliced diagonally into dozens of strips, less than a quarter of an inch wide. Then the strips are sewn back together to form a two-inch-wide piece of fur equal to the length of the coat. These long swatches of fur, in turn, are sewn together to make the coat...
...record companies are doing their best to make it a grand-opera Christmas. With Victor, Columbia and Cetra-Soria setting the pace, the industry has released more than half a dozen full-length operas, nearly a score of recorded excerpts. Among the most important...
...surest of election. A young Hartford lawyer, in his two terms in Congree Ribicoff has won the admiration of both Democrats and Republicans for his independent voting and his prompt and personal attention to the needs of his constituents. His reward has been an astonishing personal following and a full-length, strongly favorable portrait in The Saturday Evening Post. A good part of Ribbicoff's strength stems from his Jewish ancestry, a potent factor in Hartford which ranks next to New York among American cities in its proportion of Jewish citizens...
Scheduled in 1916, the opening of the Museum was delayed six years because of the first World War. Hatred of the Kaiser was so intense in Cambridge that attendants hustled his full-length portrait into hiding in the bell tower. Nevertheless, the very presence of something German in Cambridge stirred suspicion. The story floated around that the unusually heavy foundations of the building were really gun emplacements, from which Hindenburg's Big Berthas were to lob shells into the heart of Boston. Public pressure closed the Museum's doors during the second War as well...