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...every year since the modern Eisteddfod (pronounced eye-steth-vud, means "get together") began in the 18th Century, men & women from all Wales and Welshmen from all parts of the world came to sing around the Druids' Circle, marked out last week by old moss-covered stones in a cool oak-shaded glade just outside Mountain Ash. They heard the venerable Arch Druid (Congregationalist Minister Crwys Williams) open the six-day festival with the traditional words, "A oes heddwch-Is it peace?" The voices of 11,000 Welsh miners and farmers cried an answering "Heddwch!" The Arch Druid smiled...
...voting list was the census. That excluded Labrador's several hundred white stationers who go down north from Newfoundland every summer to live in frame and moss tilts and fish inshore, also the 1,200 summer floaters who fish from vessels offshore. Only the 4,000 year-around white livyers (meaning live here) and the 1,500 Eskimos, half-breeds, Nascopie and Montagnais Indians could vote...
When war put Rose into uniform in the Signal Corps, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold soon swiped him to direct the music for Moss Hart's service hit, Winged Victory. His new show is his first radio project since leaving the Air Forces last summer...
Broadway Playwright Moss Hart heard Stanislavsky, promptly signed Danny for the role of the swishy photographer in Lady in the Dark. More than once. Danny stopped the show. More than once he came close to stealing it from Gertrude Lawrence. After Let's Face It, Hollywood was inevitable. Danny signed a five-year contract with Sam Goldwyn, promised to make a picture a year...
...runway. A decade ago Mayor LaGuardia, who loved to brandish a besom, swept burlesque and all its trimmings right out of New York City; 42nd Street west of Broadway was left with a flea circus and a bereft feeling. Not until The Hat and his pecksniffian License Commissioner Paul Moss left office did there seem any chance to bring the strippers and the privy jokesters back to the boards...