Word: caroled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first story, published in 1833, he got nothing. For Pickwick Papers, he got ?15 an installment. His last book, Edwin Drood, brought the highest price Dickens ever received from a publisher: ?7,500 for the copyright, ?1,000 for the U. S. rights. A Christmas Carol was a financial disappointment. After two years, only two editions had been sold and the book had earned only ?726, or 11? a word. At $210,000, the 14,000 words of The Life of Our Lord are worth $15 each, highest price ever paid for a newspaper syndicate feature. Highest price per word...
...chats with peasants who find him far more democratic than most Bulgarian owners of automobiles. Arriving in Rumania last week the Tsar of the Bulgars created a sensation by strolling up and down the platform, gossiping with country folk when his special train halted at a small village. "King Carol never does that," frowned a Rumanian official. "It was an act, one might say, almost undiplomatic...
...Bucharest the visiting royalty were rushed through the city proper and out to the suburban Cotroceni Palace. There Tsar Boris and King Carol slipped head phones on their ears and called up King Alexander of Jugoslavia, 250 miles away in Belgrade. Alexander, who plays the game of France and is encouraged by her to play the Dictator in Jugoslavia, had just the day before broken one premier and made another. The secret telephone conference of the three kings was supposed to prepare public opinion for a pact tying up all three Balkan kingdoms with Czechoslovakia, Greece and Turkey...
Mackerel Skies (by John Haggart; George Bushar and John Tuerk, producers). What has happened before the play begins: Elsa (Violet Kemble Cooper), hot-blooded Austrian noblewoman, marries a prince, has a daughter (Carol Stone) by a peasant (Tom Powers), exhausts the prince's fortune in pursuit of a singing career, deserts prince & peasant to marry a Manhattan broker, fails dismally as a diva. What happens during the play: Grown to adolescence, the daughter displays a voice inherited not from her noble mother but from her peasant father who reappears as a wheat tycoon to oppose Elsa's jealous...
Only member of the cast at ease amid this furore is Carol Stone, 17, third daughter of Fred Stone. Theatregoers took instant notice of her ability, childish prettiness and pleasantly mature figure last season when she appeared as a minor rôle replacement in Spring in Autumn. Unlike Sisters Dorothy and Paula, who emulate the capering and caroling of Father Fred, she means to stick to straight drama...