Word: 200th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union Pacific reminds veteran cinemaddicts of many another picture, that is not strange. Paramount's 1,200th picture, it was produced and directed by the same man who made its first (The Squaw Man) 26 years ago. Union Pacific is the 65th picture Cecil Blount DeMille has directed, the 212th he has produced. Some signs that Producer-Director DeMille, who at 58 still affects the leather puttees and riding breeches of his salad days, is still going strong...
Arriving in the Independency of San Bias,-the 200th country he has visited in the past 20 years, buck-toothed Robert LeRoy Ripley announced another believe-it-or-not: he himself is now "more widely traveled than Marco Polo, Magellan, and any other human being that ever lived." In an article for the London News-Chronicle, "1939-What Does It Hold," H. G. Wells suggested a possible solution of the world's present ills: ". . . The immediate fate of hundreds of millions of people hangs upon the unchecked impulses of a mere handful of men. You could pack the whole...
...Methodists the world over, this week was Aldersgate Week, and fit 8:45 p.m. on May 24, the 200th anniversary of the warming of John Wesley, many a Methodist church was to hold special services. In England, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York were to preach in recognition of Wesley's contributions to their church. Last Sunday, throughout the U. S., some 5,000 churches of all denominations picked up an NBC broadcast dramatizing John Wesley's life...
...bantam Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia addressed himself to Protestants on religious matters. As a guest of the annual Episcopal diocesan convention the Mayor, an Episcopalian, renewed his appeal for $1,000,000 for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (collected to date: $283,000). To Presbyterians celebrating the 200th anniversary of the New York Presbytery he said: "We could use some more of you; we might even be glad to make some exchange of some others, for you carry a weight in the social services of this city out of all proportion to your numbers" (66,500). To Protestant...
...Listeners marveled at the mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary of the death of Antonio Stradivari. Proceeds went to the recently founded Stradivarius Memorial Association, which helps make fine instruments available to talented young musicians...