Word: antone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...variety which used to occur on the old Winter Garden stage before the lean years fell on the spangle manufacturers. Among the show's subtler assets are a waltz by Moss & Fontana, a bedroom scene in which Gertrude Lawrence creates considerable foolishment, and the spinning, leaping rhythms of Anton Dolin, a swarthy Englishman who once led the Diaghiliev Rus-sian ballet. Jimmy McHugh has written pleasant songs ("On the Sunny Side of the Street," "Exactly Like You") which are plugged by Harry Richman. But the revue is in general gaudy, vulgar, and provides little opportunity for the best efforts...
...advertisement distinguished for its effective use of illustration, Silas Spitzer and Anton Bruehl, New York were awarded $1,000, in recognition of their advertisement of Weber and Heilbroner, illustrating silk hats. E. R. Squibb and Sons, New York, won the prize for an effective use of display line, with their advertisement, "The Call That Will Wake Any Mother". The last award, for an advertisement distinguished for its effective use of typography, went to Kenyon and Eckhardt, Inc., New York, with recognition to Henry Eckhardt and Stuart Campbell, for an advertisement of Revere Copper and Brass, Inc., titled: "The Smoke Marks...
...Milburn, N. J., Anton Boslavage, going up hill in his 15-ton steamroller, pulled the wrong lever. The roller rolled backward down the hill, got going faster and faster, reached town at 45 m. p. h., crushed two automobiles, broke a sidewalk, knocked the corner off a building, tossed Anton Boslavage, rolled over on its side...
...British Embassy at Petrograd, with the British Military Mission to Siberia. He was decorated with the Czechoslovak Croix de Guerre, the Rus-sian Order of St. Stanislav. Though he was a friend of Katherine Mansfield and corresponded with her for years, he never met her. Other books: Futility, Anton Chekhov, The Polyglots, A Bad End, Eva's Apples, The Vanity Bag, Perfectly Scandalous (a play...
...Author. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a doctor who took to writing humorous pieces for Moscow journals to help defray the expenses of his unwieldy household. A bachelor, he had a larger family than many a paterfamilias, and they did their best to eat him out of house and home. When critics began to take his funny stories seriously, no one was more amused and surprised than Dr. Chekhov. When he started to write plays (Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard} he got to know the members of Stanislavsky's famed Moscow...