Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muny" opera, this summer, has $77 citizen-guarantors, a backing of $103,000 and a roster of well-paid performers which includes Evelyn Herbert, Odette Myrtil, Katherine Carrington, Gladys Baxter, Marguerita Sylva, Leslie Adams, Robert Halliday, Alexander Gray. The "Muny" way is to have local choristers and dancers who work very hard for very little and get their pictures in the papers. For "Muny" opera some 1,700 seats are free to first-comers who arrive hours before curtain time, munch their suppers while they wait. In the $2 seats early-dining socialites sit comfortably on cushions hawked at every...
...became involved in a scandal with a mulatto woman; in New Orleans where he won a small reputation as a scholar and journalist; in the West Indies, where he renounced Western civilization. In 1890 he settled in Japan, married a member of a distinguished Samurai family, became a Japanese citizen and professor of English literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo, adopted his wife's family name of Koizumi ("Little Spring"). He produced eleven volumes of interpretation of Oriental life and literature, raised three sons and a daughter...
...childhood playmates. Though the song still sells 5,000 copies a year, it brought only $5,000 to Blake and Composer Charles Lawlor, who died penniless in 1925. Pensioned by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, Blake was hospitalized during his last illness through the offices of Citizen Smith...
Died. Jane Addams, 74, pioneer social worker, lecturer, pacifist, reformer, founder 46 years ago of Chicago's Hull House, first and most famed settlement house in the U.S.; after an operation for abdominal adhesions and cancer; in Chicago. Theodore Roosevelt called her "America's most useful citizen." For her peace activities, which included organizing an international congress of women during the War and resisting U.S. entry into the War, she was awarded one-half the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, with Nicholas Murray Butler...
...bother to mention Father Coughlin by name, is the radio priest's highest-placed Catholic critic. So the Massachusetts Catholic Order of Foresters was well aware what the "dean of the U.S. hierarchy" meant when he addressed their meeting: "There are a million ways in which any citizen of America can voice his views, but it ought to be done with self-respecting honesty and, above all, the proper respect due to superiors. . . . Oftentimes the faith of our good people is tested by those shouters and shriekers who would be much better occupied by bringing peace and concord among...