Word: antone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Princess Ileana of Rumania, sister of King Carol, and Archduke Anton von Habsburg: a daughter, their second child; on the Archduke's estate near Vienna. Name: Maria Ileana...
...Dark Tower (by Alexander Woollcott & George S. Kaufman; Sam H. Harris, producer). The mystery element of this frank but funny melodrama begins in a program note in which an actor billed as Anton Stengel is described as having been a member of Max Reinhardt's companies in both Berlin and Vienna who has been working in Hollywood and is just making his bow on the Broadway stage. Sly Polemist Woollcott (The New Yorker), who relishes a good mystification, must have enjoyed inserting that bit into the humorous murder show he has written with famed Collaborator Kaufman (Of Thee...
...Grasse, France. Writer of the old school, called "the last heir to the Russian realist tradition of the 19th Century," Bunin has long had a big reputation in Russia, where he won the Pushkin prize for poetry (1890), was an honorary member (with Maxim Gorki and the late great Anton Chekhov) of the exclusive Academy of St. Petersburg. Enthusiastic Russians rank Bunin with Dostoyevsky and Turgenev. Europe has read translations of Mitya's Love and The Village. But until U. S. Publisher Knopf brought out an English translation of Bunin's famed short story, "The Gentleman from...
...Left. By Anton Joseph Cermak, martyred Mayor of Chicago: an estate of $545,378-Died. Lieut. Elliott McFarlane Moore, U. S. Naval Reserve. 31, son-in-law of the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett (chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics who died in the Akron disaster), director of Wilmington-Catalina Airline. Ltd.; of injuries suffered when a W.C. A. ten-passenger amphibion plane, taking off for the California mainland, capsized a half-mile from Catalina Island, killing the copilot, injuring the pilot...
...years inventors have been trying to make the wind generate electricity, but with no commercial success. Three years ago Julius D. Madaras, Detroit Hungarian, persuaded six power concerns that he could succeed by adapting a Magnus rotor such as carried Anton Flettner's sailing vessel Baden-Baden from Hamburg to Manhattan (TIME, May 24, 1926) and lifted Harold Elstner Talbott Jr.'s hydroplane from Long Island waters in 1930. The utilitarians gave Designer Madaras $104,000 to build a demonstration rotor at West Burlington, N. J. Last week he showed them that it works...