Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Producer Fanchon, 42, was Fanny Wolf, daughter of a Los Angeles clothing store proprietor. She studied piano; her brother Mike (Marco) fiddle. Together they entertained at lodge parties and picnics, graduated to a dinner show in Tait's famed San Francisco restaurant. Fanchon & Marco embellished their act with other specialties, began to play theatre dates in their spare time. When the demand grew they organized a second company, coalesced their troupe in a musical show Sunkist which they took to Broadway. Two weeks later the Southern Pacific Railroad accepted Marco's note for $2,800 to transport...
...that the fact that it sold other things than drugs had no bearing on the matter. In fact, the modern drug store's large and heterogeneous stock was nothing new to Judge James P. Hughes, who was reminded of Romeo's lines in Romeo & Juliet (Act V, Scene 1) when he entered the apothecary's shop...
...York Court of Appeals came the case of a man who wanted to sue another man for alienating his wife's affections and criminal conversation (adultery). The case (Hanfgarn v. Mark) had been appealed to test two phases of New York's 1935 anti-heart balm act. For the plaintiff, counsel claimed that the rights which a husband has in the affection and society of his wife are property rights. After citing legal precedents, counsel turned to Petruchio's lines about his wife Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew (Act III, Scene...
...last day of 1936 in the case of Fearon v. Treanor was the section of the law banning breach of promise suits. Last week in the U. S. Supreme Court Nurse Catherine Fearon of New York filed an appeal seeking to have New York's anti-heart balm act declared unconstitutional. Cited by her lawyer was Article I, section 10 of the U. S. Constitution: "No State shall.. . pass any . . . law impairing the obligation of contracts. . . ." In the Hanfgarn v. Mark opinion New York's Court of Appeals ruled that marriage "is not a common-law contract...
...neither judicial nor austere nor cool. Last week, when the Chamber convened for its 28th annual meeting with an attendance less than half of last year's, it was chiefly concerned not with baiting the New Deal but with facing the great reality of the National Labor Relations Act...