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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...informal, rambling musicomedy written by Donald Ogden Stewart, Going Hollywood is an effort to use radio as a decoy for cinema audiences, which succeeds much better than previous attempts built around less genuinely valuable performers than Bing Crosby...
...Their footwork was incredibly swift and sure. But all the leading dancers were so expert that they made the most marvelous spins and leaps seem incidental. That was the way of the old Russian Ballet which Serge Diaghilev brought out of St. Petersburg into Europe. He built up its reputation to top-notch not only because he had dancers like Karsavina and Nijinsky and a choreographer like Fokine but also because he had the imagination to commission artists like Bakst, Matisse and Picasso to do his settings, composers like Ravel, Stravinsky and Milhaud to write his music. Diaghilev fathered...
While Samuel Insull was wondering where to go next this week, lights flashed on in the mammoth opera house he built for Chicago and for the first time since he fled the country a formal Chicago opera season was about to begin. Prices were cut in half so that orchestra seats cost $3 instead of $6. Big singers were engaged, but at salaries adjusted to fit a careful budget. Chicago's socialites never liked the high-railed boxes lined up in cinema-house fashion at the back of the house. But in ten new boxes built...
James Cash Penney has done a lot for Florida. His chainstore millions built a limestone palace near Miami which Herbert Hoover used as his pre-inaugural White House. More millions went into Penney Farms where an Institute of Applied Agriculture teaches Florida farming to Florida farmers. And at least three Penney millions went into a yawning Florida hole-Miami's City National Bank. In 1928 when City National was still teetering from the collapse of the land boom and the damage of the Great Hurricane, James Cash Penney and his associates bought control, injected $2,000,000 of fresh...
...family of Swiss hotelkeepers. he used to say that his father fed him a spoonful of wine before he was allowed to suckle. Next to Prohibition, he detested the machine age, refused to use a telephone or ride in an automobile. His favorite vehicle was a coach, originally built for President James Monroe, which he bought in 1870. Sometimes he would hitch it to a team of oxen, to emphasize his contempt for motors...