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Halloween Ideas from 1923

IDEAS FOR A VINTAGE HALLOWEEN
Coming up with ideas for Halloween costumes and decorations is a perennial problem that never seems to get easier, and it’s not a new problem.
Our Great Grandparents had the same problem and so a crepe paper manufacturer recognized the opportunity and produced a neat little 34 page booklet that was was chock [...]

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American Drama 1916 Part 2

WHAT was needed to remake the theater was not better managers, better actors, better playwrights, but—fore and aft— that same sixth sense, a “national consciousness” that would enable us to distinguish the better ones when we saw them. We needed to think “theater” in America, not solely as a place for entertainment, but also as [...]

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American Drama 1916 Part 1

A SPECIAL YEAR OF AMERICAN DRAMA:
BY EDITH J. R. ISAACS
(Chairman American Drama Committee, Drama League of America)
IN China, any man who writes an unmoral play is threatened by the social religious code with a purgatory lasting as long as his play continues to be produced. This is exactly as it should be. It is a [...]

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