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...songs and dialogue-by Edward Mabley of the Teague organization, who never once forgot that two men impersonating a horse are always good for a laugh. A Thousand Times Neigh is a Ford's-eye-view of the problems of Dobbin, a $1,000 steed of cloth and leather, with movable eyes, ears, lips, jaws, tail. Horse-players: Vladimir Vassilieff, Kari Karnikovski. From 1903 to the present, Dobbin foots it featly while such top-notch Caravan dancers as Marie Jeanne and Nicki Magallanes mime the rise of the Ford-often on the toes of their ballet slippers. The music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballet for Ford | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Winners in the University Sculling Championships which were held on the Charles May 20 will receive small wood and cloth models of the craft the rowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Single Sculls Winners to Be Awarded Model Boat Prizes | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...warm, sunny afternoon in London, and pretty girls who sold red-&-white cloth flowers for hospital relief had collected many a shilling and sixpence. Men in uniform and mufti, women with market baskets and prams made a quiet crowd at the gates of the House of Commons, through which, between 2:45 and 3:30, streamed the cars and taxis of some 500 Members, 200 privileged private citizens, two dozen diplomats, a score of British and foreign correspondents. About to begin was one of the gravest debates in the history of the world's greatest oratorical body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Warlord for Peacemaker | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...November election. . . . The streets of Copenhagen are blacker than Father Divine." Of English reverses in Norway he remarked facetiously: "Charlie McCarthy's Bergen is the only one of that name not entirely encompassed by Germans." Back in Berlin May 1 he joked about British efforts to save cloth: "London . . . theatre managers have already stripped their chorus and show girls down to their epidermis. They've solved the costume problem by presenting their dancing cuties clad only in cuticle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mr. Wisecrack | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...senior singles race will be run from the Cottage Farm Bridge to a point just short of the M.I.T. dinghy boathouse. Prizes in all of these competitions are tiny model singles which are made from wood and cloth to exact scale during the winter by the members of the coaching staff and painted in Harvard colors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Single Scullers Throng Charles As Season Opens | 5/1/1940 | See Source »

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