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...growth of beard. They sang such lumber camp ballads as Never Take the Horseshoe from the Door, danced jigs, reels, clogs. Average age of the Michigan group: 67. The Wisconsin lumberjacks played on a one-string Norwegian instrument called the salmodikon. Seventy-one-year-old Sven Svenson, in a chef's costume, chipped a two-inch piece of birchbark from a log, put it to his lips and played a thin, shrill tune on the chip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Folk Festival | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...installed the Basque children suddenly lost all bravado. A squadron of British planes on practice flight hammered overhead. Screaming in terror, the Basque children stampeded for their tents, holes in the ground, anywhere they could hide. They were not quieted until a Basque priest had said Mass, a Basque chef stewed up steaming caldrons of their national dish, bacalao Bilbaino (creamed codfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Still Bilbao | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

When food is at last sneaked them by a waiter (Alexander Asro) who has been promised a part in their show, Mr. Loeb, after the most voracious eating scene since Mclntyre & Heath in The Ham Tree, amiably suggests that a small part be written in for the chef. In addition to the mortal drolleries of these accomplished comedians, a flanking barrage of laughs is provided by the continual reappearance of a man from the We Never Sleep Collection Agency who is trying to repossess a typewriter, an elk's head which the director loyally refuses to pawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...Hornell. N. Y., Negro Chef Louis Sight asked Patrolman C. Kenneth Conley to let him look at his blackjack. Chef Sight snapped it inquisitively, knocked himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 12, 1937 | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...beside him last week His Majesty drove a car briefly in Windsor, was promptly described as "the first King in British history to drive his Queen in an automobile." George V never drove Queen Mary: Edward VIII drove Mrs. Simpson. She remained last week in France with friends whose chef she last year got appointed chef of Buckingham Palace. He resigned last week, one jump ahead of dismissal by George VI. Meanwhile the letters patent creating the Dukedom of Windsor were passed under the Great Seal. They are so drawn that the Duchess of Windsor and her children have full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Notes | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

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