Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glen Cove, L. I., Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane lay ill of pneumonia, from a cold contracted while returning from Chicago where she saw her No. 1 horse Cavalcade win the Arlington Classic...
...last week, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's Discovery had been second. Whether the misfortune of racing against a horse whom experts last week were comparing to Man o' War was an insuperable obstacle was what Mr. Vanderbilt wanted to learn when he entered Discovery in the Arlington Classic at Chicago last week...
...management, that was responsible. Author Tomas does his Spanish best to scrub clean the grimy pane of history that separates Cervantes' 16th-Century day from ours but Cervantes' human figure remains darkly obscured. To many a U. S. reader, however, accustomed to paying lip-service to Cervantes' unread classic, any facts about its author's life will be all news...
...from companies exhibiting at its winter and summer shows. This year manufacturers hope to tempt the public into renewed buying of modern furniture, which has toned down considerably since its introduction in 1928. Of the 20,000 pieces on exhibit at the mart, 26% were modern "functional" (extreme) and "classic" (toned down), 30% Early American, 23% commercial and nondescript, 10% Georgian, the rest Louis, Early English, Empire and Biedermeier...
Universal, like other Hollywood companies, is suffering a painful shortage of good story material. Cinema producer have bought production rights to almost every successful play produced in Manhattan since last autumn. Next year's schedules are, more than ever, topheavy with oldtime "classics." Not to be outclassed by MGM, Universal was last week planning to produce Dickens' unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood, with an ending supplied by some writer under Universal contract. Charles Dickens' face appeared in Universal's list of "Box Office Authors,' along with those of Edith Wharton (Strange Wives) and Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven). Frankenstein...