Word: 48th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plays, which may build into a real smash before many weeks go by, is "Fly Away Home," produced by a new luminary amongst Broadway impressarios. Theron Bamberger, and starring that genial and expansive actor-director. Thomas Mitchell. This opus written by a couple of unknowns and housed the 48th Street Theatre since its opening ten days age, is probably the furriest and certainly the most wholesomely bawdy comedy of the year...
...48th birthday last week Alexander Woollcott was still enough of a newspaper reporter to go to Flemington, N. J. to cover the fourth week of the Hauptmann trial for North American Newspaper Alliance. Proud is he of his early experiences as a Manhattan newshawk in the days of the Herman Rosenthal murder and the sinking of the Titanic. Yet he can, on occasion, forget his reporter's training long enough to put extra barbs on some paragraph of gossip, or to roll a log for one of his favorites. His humor has much of the feminine savagery of Dorothy...
...American circuit, Lou Gehrig celebrated his 1,500th consecutive regular major league game by driving out his 48th home run of the season as the New York Yankees blanked Connie Mack's Athletics...
Last week, fortnight after his 48th birthday, the rumor spread insistently across Europe that at last Alfonso, still His Most Catholic Majesty to monarchists, was ready to ask Pope Pius XI for an annulment of his marriage to Victoria Eugenie. A twin rumor was that Alfonso proposed to renounce his rights to the Spanish throne in favor of his third son Prince Juan, now a cadet in the British Navy. Last week newshawks found a few of the Bourbon's "friends" who gravely agreed that "there is a foundation for the rumors." Vatican officials pointed out that the Pope...
Though it was the National Horse Show Association's 50th anniversary, it was only the 48th show. In 1890 when the old Madison Square Garden was being built and again in 1914 at the beginning of the War, no shows were held. Preceding, as it has survived, Stanford White's tower, the first horse show was held in Gilmore's Garden, a name applied to the old Harlem Railway Terminal as soon as the tracks were torn out. Dutch White was at that horse show too (he rode a Belmont mount then) and he has been...