Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Repeal rounded the two-thirds mark without a break in its stride last week when Washington became the 24th State to approve the 21st Amendment. Voting by legislative districts, the State chose 95 Wet delegates, four Dry ones to its ratification convention in October. The popular vote...
...death. With much more charm than most British musicomedies-which are inclined to be prim and lazy-Bitter Sweet is notable chiefly for its blonde leading lady, Anna Neagle, a onetime chorus girl. The producers of the cinema version of Bittersweet which Noel Coward insisted be made in England, chose her for the leading role in preference to Evelyn Laye or Jeanette MacDonald. Aside from a contract to play the title role in British & Dominion's forthcoming Nell Gwynne and a bad habit of twitching her paws, Anna Neagle has all the requisites for a speedy trip to Hollywood...
...John Wesley Graham, head of the Texas Music Teachers Association. Said she: "I expect to fill Soldier Field. We will put on the opera with a company of 1,000, and Col. Zack Miller has promised us anything from his big menagerie. I had lunch with him and chose five elephants and a number of horses, camels and zebras." She paid the advance expenses, undertook the task of getting an all-Texas cast together in Chicago. With the little Houston Civic Opera as a nucleus, she organized the Texas Grand Opera Association, got Delia Samoiloff, who once appeared with...
...Capitol's Statuary Hall stands a large Gutzon Borglum bronze of the late John Campbell Greenway in Army breeches, boots, crop and shirt. Arizona chose this Yaleman, Rough Rider, A. E. F. colonel, rancher and copper tycoon as one of its two most distinguished citizens, had his statue made and presented to the Government. Last week the youngest State started John Greenway's widow on her way to the Capitol and to a seat in the House of Representatives not 100 yards from her husband's statue. Arizona Democrats nominated Mrs. Greenway to be their State...
...modest uniform of a militia corporal. General Balbo stepped forward, received from Il Duce a biretta and gold eagle denoting him Italy's first Air Marshal. Then lieutenant-colonels of the squadron were promoted to colonels; captains to majors, mechanics to non-commissioned officers. A few chose the option of receiving decorations from the King in lieu of promotion...