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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These mysterious interruptions were traced to television. They had come from NBC's Station W2XBS in the Empire State Building, which two months ago began to broadcast the first regular television programs in the U. S. To the dismay of engineers, television's sound effects were picked up by many another unlikely gadget. Television interference also came in on numerous Manhattan radio receivers, including Journalist Dorothy Thompson's, over the whole dial...
...theatre, few plays were published. Four years ago Barrett Harper Clark, historian and critic (Eugene O'Neill, A Study of the Modern Drama) of the drama, got an $8,000 grant (through Authors' League of America and the Dramatists' Guild) from the Rockefeller Foundation, began hunting for unpublished plays, of which he believes there are 20,000. In old actors' homes, in garrets of theatre folk, after devious detectification, Mr. Clark and his helpers found some 400 plays. As prime examples of Americana-but not of dramatic literature-Princeton University Press hopes to publish...
...about short-wave propaganda broadcasts to South America by Germany and Italy that it has considered establishing a Federal radio station to compete with them. Not to be caught napping, U. S. private broadcasters, who fear a Government yardstick station as the devil fears holy water, two years ago began to bid with renewed wattage and State Department tutoring for the ears of the South American audience...
This exacting art Sonja Henie began to study when she was eight. For Christmas that year Father Wilhelm, a Scandinavian copy of W. C. Fields, gave her her first, cheap pair of skates. Trying them out at the Frogner Stadium, little Sonja promptly sat down. Getting up, she practiced her outer and inner edges so diligently that next year she won Oslo's junior competition; five years after that, aged 14, the Norwegian championship. That was the Olympic Year of 1924 and Sonja went to Chamonix to try out in the great games. The trial was a disappointment...
Then & there Sonja Henie, who has a competitive spirit only in the sense that she cannot brook a serious rival, decided that she would be beaten no more. She withdrew from competition, began practicing seven hours a day. Because Norway then had no indoor rinks and the good ice lasted only a few months, Papa Henie dug down into his capacious pantaloons and Sonja followed the ice and the good teachers into Germany, England, Switzerland, Austria. To develop her defective sense of rhythm, she studied ballet. In 1926, feeling her oats, she entered the world's championship matches...