Word: clare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last night Clare Clairbert, Belgian coloratura soprano in her U. S. début, sang coolly, sweetly, well the wanton Violette in Verdi's once frowned-on La Traviata, opposite Beniamino Gigli's capable Alfred Germont...
Paul Mellon, son of Secretary Andrew William Mellon, arrived in the U.S. from Cambridge, England, where he has been studying in Clare College. During the summer vacation he will study business and banking under his father's eye. Said he to Manhattan newshawks: "I do not think I would be a great success as a banker or industrialist. Commerce and banking hold no particular interest for me. . . . Other members of my family . . . are better fitted than I am to look after the family interests. I have certain ideas of my own about the business of book publishing...
Last week famed Cartoonist Rea Irvin broke into the "funnies" with a new full-page Sunday series. Other publishers had been watching to see whom and what the New York Herald Tribune would procure for itself and its syndicate to replace "Mr. & Mrs." by the late great Cartoonist Clare Briggs. Instead of replacing "Mr. & Mrs." the Herald Tribune has continued it, drawn by a "ghost" (Cartoonist Arthur Folwell). But also the Herald Tribune engaged Rea Irvin. His title is "The Smythes;" his characters, the conventional father, mother, small son & daughter, Pekinese pup; his theme, the conventional burlesque...
...such person as Paul Melon is known to exist. Paul Mellon, mentally active son of the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury, stroked the Clare College second boat in successful competition with other Cambridge College boats in an annual event which may properly be described as a regatta but which Cantabs delight to call The Lents...
...Clare College, Cambridge, England...