Word: adolph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tardy salute. Followed by three private bodyguards, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean went to a night club in A Century of Progress. Around her neck hung the 44½ carat Hope diamond. Said Mrs. McLean: "Of course it's the real Hope diamond." Next night a mile away Mrs- Adolph Zukor awoke from a sound sleep on the 13th floor of the Blackstone Hotel to discover that she had been robbed of a $60,000 pearl necklace, a $1,100 pair of diamond-studded lorgnettes. Five thousand curious Texans gathered at the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth to watch...
...head the ballet school Impresario Merola wisely chose Adolph Bolm who used to dance in the peerless Diaghilev troupe with Karsavina, Mordkin, Nijinsky. What the school has accomplished in less than two years was demonstrated one night last week before all the Californians the opera house could hold. The dancing they saw was expert, technically sure. And more, it had escaped from the musty routine which stales most opera ballet. With equal spirit and understanding the Bolm dancers did a classical Chopin Reverie, a weird Chinese folk drama and a Ballet Mecanique for which they wore costumes of wood, Cellophane...
...piece to this moralizing talkie is "The Trumpet Blows". George Raft is featured as the Mexican matador who at heart is yellow. His East Said diction seems out of place in this picture of Mexican life and as usual he demonstrates his inability as an actor. Better cast is Adolph Menjou who plays his brother. Both men fall in love with the rhumba dancer Chulita, played by Frances Drake, and around her the story is centered. The piece is very mediocre but may appeal to those who like bullfights and vampire-like women...
...Europe, fastest-ship afloat, today has covered nearly half of the distance between Cherbourg and New York bearing in one of its staterooms Adolph Hitler's Foreign Press Agent, Ernst F. Sedgewick Hanfstaengl '09, who decided at the last minute to attend the 25th reunion of his class which will be held here next week...
Birthdays. Adolph Lewisohn, philanthropist, 85; Queen Mary of England, 67; Eduard Benes, Czechoslovakia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, 50; James Joseph ("Gene'') Tunney, 36. Died. Henry T. Koenig, 42, radium authority, developer of a reduction system which greatly cut radium costs; of cancer of the hip; in Denver. He was the last to die (from radioactivity) of 21 onetime assistants to Mme Marie Sklodowska Curie...