Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Sophie Engastromenos Schliemann, 80, archaeologist, relict of the late great Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann who uncovered an ancient town which he claimed to be Troy; in Athens. After 15 years of woe with his first wife, whom he divorced, Schliemann asked the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens to pick a Greek bride for him, "of the true Greek type, black-haired and, if possible, beautiful." The Archbishop picked Sophie, 16, who lived happily with Schliemann for 21 years until his death...
...pretty Princess Sibylle Calma Maria Alicia Bathildis Feodora von Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha. She seemed destined to become one day by her brilliant marriage Queen of Sweden. All Coburg was sure that as soon as he is born, the future King of Sweden will be laid, according to ancient ritual, "on Coburg soil" in the double-bottomed cradle...
...There is one sport that fulfills all these conditions, an ancient sport beloved of men from time immemorial-horse racing. ... In all sacred and profane literature the horse has been the intimate friend of man, and it has been his mission to take upon his broad shoulders the load that had become too heavy for his master. ... In the first place, it is a better money-maker than a football show. Secondly, it is the sort of event on which the old grads and the undergrads can bet in more ways than they can even in football. In the third...
...cast will include R. S. Fitzgerald '33, R. V. Scudder '34, Sherman Conrad '33, H. C. Hatfield '33, and P. L. McKendrick '34. H. T. Levin '33 will have charge of production. Special music has been written for the play by Eliot Carter '29, a student of Ancient Music, and settings will be designed by S. C. Cauman '29. The play is being supervised by a faculty committee consisting of Milman Parry, assistant professor of Greek, chairman, A. H. Chase, instructor in the department of Classics, and J. H. Finley...
Criminal At Large (by Edgar Wallace; Guthrie McClintic, producer). In the latest posthumous melodrama of prolific Edgar Wallace to reach this country are: an ancient English family seat where two murders have been committed; an imperious lady (Alexandra Carlisle) who goes about praising her ancestors and trying to hide evidence; her amiable son (Emlyn Williams), her frightened niece (Katherine Wilson); two plug-ugly footmen, one romantic, one comic and one effective police officer. Less vigilant spectators will be in anxious seats until Actor Williams begins to smile late in Act III. The cast of this loosely pasted thriller snoop, scream...