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Word: billye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Floor Shows. Closed is Smart Showman Billy Rose's famed Casa Manana, but sparkling with the brightest floor show in town is his Diamond Horseshoe. In a room decked out with expertly hideous. Mauve Decade decor, on a tiny stage above a tremendous bar, the Diamond

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revelry by Night | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

In Manhattan last week the American Lyric Theatre entered the second week of its debutante season. First week, it had launched the folksy opera, The Devil and Daniel Webster, by Douglas Moore and Stephen Vincent Benet. This it followed with an operetta based upon Stephen Foster tunes, Susanna Don'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For the People | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

If U. S. culture was not much enriched by the Lyric Theatre last week, the reputation of Composer Copland was. His music for the "character-ballet" Billy the Kid, much of it based on cowboy songs, was close-knit, percussive, incisive, wasting not a grace note in its evocation of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For the People | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Billy the Kid was compelling testimony to that aim. Last week Composer Copland had another. In his first cinema music, for the documentary film The City (see p. 66), he wrote a score which well expressed the calm of a New England village, the bustle of a big city, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For the People | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

In Portland, Ore., Sports Editor Billy Stepp described racing greyhounds as "beetles," "pigs." An indignant breeder filed a $20,000 libel action.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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