Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother, has kept a clocklike schedule of work-walk-read, has held aloof from close friendships with other writers. Most remarkable of all, she has imagined the backgrounds of her novels (although she says their authenticity has never been questioned). So Big, for example, she wrote in a torrid Chicago hotel room, never having seen a farm. Now living in a fabulous soundproof Park Avenue penthouse (originally built for Ivar Kreuger, the late, burnt-out Match King), she is glad that in her personal life she has also been a bystander. She has never married. Sometimes, says Edna Ferber, under...
...greatest money-makers in the history of the theatre, the Gilbert & Sullivan operas today are finding new ways of striking gold. In Chicago an all-Negro Federal Theatre Mikado, set to swing, has the town by the ears. Last month Britain's G. & S. Films, Ltd. released The Mikado in Technicolor-the first full-length cinema version of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera in history...
...months Chicago's LaSalle Street has buzzed with rumors that stormy, exuberant General Robert Elkington Wood was about to resign as president of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and campaign for public office, possibly the Presidency of the U. S. Sears has a rule that executives must retire at 60; the rambunctious General is 59 and no man to twiddle his thumbs...
Approximately $13,300 has been raised for the support of the refugees, Lane said. Of this amount $11,000 came from the University and $2,300 from alumni in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati and Virginia, to 10,000 of whom the Committee sent written appeals...
Boston 3, Chicago...