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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot of the story surrounds the cruel legalized murder of Briget Bishop and the accusations and attempts made on her daughter Mary. Born in a country where a woman might call her soul her own, and not be accused of witchcraft because she had certain marks on her body which every woman was not afflicted with, Briget fights her way through the terrors of a trial and an execution to preserve the reputation of her daughter and save her from a mad people who knew not what they...
...Koussevitzky has chosen Haydn's "Surprise Symphony" in G major to open the concerts in town this weekend. Following this with a decided contrast is the new Third Symphony of Nicolai Berezowsky. Mr. Berezowsky, who was born in Russia but has lived in the United States for several years, will conduct the work...
...Babson came honestly by his combination of Yankee piety and Yankee shrewdness. Born in Gloucester, Mass. where his father was a merchant, Roger Babson has probably made more money out of statistics than anyone in the U. S. One of the chapters in his autobiography is headed, "$1,200 Becomes Millions." As a youth, he relates, he "always liked bright, jolly girls, full of the dickens." But he kept his eye on the main chance, and after a disillusioning turn in investment banking, followed by a bad case of tuberculosis, he set himself up in Wellesley Hills, Mass...
Iowa patriots who revere the Scott County birthplace of "Buffalo Bill" were shocked to hear that the Bologna newspaper Resto del Carlino had "discovered" that Colonel William Frederick Cody was really Giovanni Tambini, born in Barbigarezzo about 1840 and "a typical Italian ... full of Fascist courage and daring...
Although not one of the best known modern Germans, Kleinschmidt will be familiar to those who have seen his exhibition of German art in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Born in Pomerania in 1883, Paul Kleinschmidt has studied in Munich and Berlin. His great interest in Van Gogh took him to Southern France where he painted many scenes that his predecessor had done. The paintings of the "Sunflower" and the "Arles Bridge," in the exhibition show this admiration for Van Gogh...