Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in the Greenwich Village Italian colony 37 years ago, Anthony Sisti began to draw early, though he says his cafe-keeping father never drew anything but beer from a tap. He began to box in 1917 at a Buffalo, N.Y. gym, and the next year won the amateur bantamweight championship of New York State. From then until 1930 he fought 100 professional bouts, lost 15, earned enough to go to Europe for five years and enough while there to pay tuition at the Florence Academy, where he got his doctor's degree in painting...
Milwaukee's employment agency is a dark draftsman named Eugene J. Buerk. Nazi Buerk's wife is sick at home, so he interviews applicants at the Highland Cafe (see cut, p. 15). He talks to as many as 100 per day, prefers skilled mechanics and machinists, particularly in the automotive trades. Those who accept his proposition must pay their own way to Manhattan, plus $35 toward third-class fare on a German-American liner. Remainder of the fare (about $110) reportedly is paid by a German industrial cartel (Siemens & Halske; Volkswagen; Augsburg Machine Co.; Bosch; Daimler; Opel&Wanderwerke...
...contest held at Palm Beach's swank Colony Club, the leading contender for the title of "Glamor Girl of Palm Beach" was 17-year-old Cobina Wright Jr., Manhattan cafe society songstress. Judges were Photographer Hal Phyfe and Illustrator James Montgomery Flagg. After an argument with his fellow judge, Flagg huffed: "I have a vote, but it is not for Miss Cobina Wright. However, I will turn my vote over to Phyfe, and he can make the choice." Phyfe promptly chose Cobina Wright. Next day Illustrator Flagg saw her on the beach in a one-piece bathing suit. Dazzled...
Finest opera to be heard at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House today is Wagner opera. And the most important and painstaking of its Wagnerian productions are those of the two Nibelungen Ring cycles which attract some 8,000 listeners annually. No light-headed cafe socialites are they. Wagner's Nibelungen epic consists of four ponderous operas (Rheingold, Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung) totaling 14 hours of music & drama, requires tremendous listening endurance. But for eight years every Metropolitan Ring cycle has been sung to a sold-out house. Last week the first of this year's cycles opened...
...every 100 U. S. citizens who have heard of Thomas Alva Edison, it would be hard to find one who has heard of Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903). Some years ago, however, a gathering of British scientists spouting learned chitchat in a cafe voted Gibbs no less than the greatest U. S. scientist ever...