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...have seen "Blossom Time" twice. When we were ten years old we fidgeted so much our uncle had to remove us bodily from the theatre in the middle of the performance. Last night we sat through the entire production with a good deal more enjoyment, only fidgeting in occasional spots. "Blossom Time" blossomed forth about as well as any tragic, sentimental light-opera could before an audience accustomed to mock-serious musical comedies on the order of "Red Hot and Blue," or "On Your Toes...
Glad to get back to Cleveland to do some creative showmanship, "Linc" Dickey finished up his blueprints for a Great Lakes Exposition early last winter, laid them on the desk of Cleveland's No. 1 philanthropist, Dudley Stuart Blossom. Enthusiastic Mr. Blossom promptly agreed to bear all development costs up to Jan. 1. By the end of January contributions ranging from $25 to $50,000 had underwritten the Exposition for $1,100,000. Setting up a nonprofit corporation, General Manager Dickey, General Chairman Blossom and 125 trustees went into action...
...Francisco's Shamrock Club, Dancer Betty Blossom swirled onto the floor, swinging a pair of benzine torches. A drunk rose, foolishly pawed at Dancer Blossom. Up went her arm, up in flames went the flimsy papier-mache ceiling. When firemen fought their way in to smother the blaze, they found a Chinese cook, three orchestramen hidden in the icebox. Dead from flames and trampling were the hatcheck girl, a woman patron, two men. Torch-Dancer Blossom was arrested for violating San Francisco's fire laws...
...original cast, Charles Winninger is again Cap'n Andy of the Cotton Blossom. Heavy-eyed, heavy-mouthed Helen Morgan is the hapless Julie, dashing in the satin flounces of an 1885 showgirl, who is forced to leave Cap'n Andy's troupe when it turns out she is a mulatto illegally married to a white man. Paul Robeson appears as the honest, lazy handyman who does little but sing 01' Man River while the camera travels from his calm black face to toiling Negroes, and finally to the broad, rippling Mississippi - in this case...
...Rock Creek Park which was once the family estate, she signs her paintings Azadia. Of Sitter Garner she recalled: "He called me 'little lady' and gave me a long talk about caring for my teeth." Crowned Queen Shenandoah XIII of the annual Shenandoah Valley Apple Blossom Festival at Winchester, Va. was pretty, brunette Cornelia Ann Larus, 20, daughter of Richmond Tobacco Tycoon Lewis Griffin Larus (Edgeworth...