Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Opera Company, so-named after an Aïda performance Salmaggi put on at Soldier Field last autumn, ends its Hippodrome run this week on the crest of financial success. During the summer Salmaggi intends to put on open-air Aïda in Newark, Boston, Pittsburgh, in the dirigible hangar in Akron. Between times he will hear new singers, rehearse diligently, get new scenery together for the autumn when he will give two months of opera at the Hippodrome. Backers Mayberry and Carroll care nothing about spreading culture (the tin-cup cry of the Metropolitan). But if their...
...automatically compared with Benny Leonard. Slick little Ross may turn out to justify the analogy better than his predecessors-Sid Terris, Ruby Goldstein, Al Singer-if, as he promised to do last week, he gives Canzoneri, who had held the title for three years, a return match next autumn. Far more uncertain than the light weight situation is the condition of the heavyweight championship. This week's fight between Jack Sharkey (champion) and Primo Camera is actually no more than an elimination bout to provide a worthy opponent for Max Baer, who beat Schmeling. In Oakland, Calif., newshawks last...
Ennis H. Coale, 20; is a good Methodist and a member of the Epworth League. When he entered the University of Maryland last autumn, he declined to join the R. O. T. C. Quaker students at Maryland are exempt from military training. Student Coale claimed the same exemption on the grounds that the Methodist Church is against war. He was promptly suspended by Maryland's President Raymond Allen Pearson. Aided by his father, Ennis Coale took his case to court. A circuit judge granted him a writ of mandamus to force the University to reinstate...
...automobile industry may ask for an average 36-hr, work week, since during its rush months (April, May, June) the industry is geared to a 48-hr, week, tapering off in autumn and winter to less than half of that...
Besides Depression "Clem"' Hobson has had to contend with failing eyesight. One eye went blind years ago. Last autumn his good eye dimmed. Never giving up, "Clem" Hobson went to Lausanne, had his eye operated on, hurried back to Paris before the wound was healed, to superintend the reopening of the Ambassadeurs for the present summer season. With him went a beefy British friend. After the dress rehearsal the friend rumbled up, roaring enthusiasm...