Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These violently uncertain elements were whipped into a poignant pageant of emotion by Rouben Mamoulian. Before Porgy opened, his name meant nothing. The next morning he had three offers from envious producers to come over and stage shows for them. He is 30, an Armenian-Russian; forsook law studies in Moscow to learn his trade in the Third Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre. He was directing for the Eastman Theatre in Rochester when he sought and found a small niche at the Guild. When the directors were exhausted trying to select a suitable director for the treacherously difficult Porgy...
...Fair of the Horse, in Halethorpe, Md., have come school children, railroad presidents, Henry Ford and many miscellaneous spectators, to the number of 1,000,000, since it was opened three weeks ago. On the fairgrounds they have strolled past exhibitions of trunks, tickets, timetables, tableware from Pullmans, telephones, tiny model locomotives, travel-folders, telegraph instruments, types of primitive wooden rails, all of curious and obscure design. Also, they have noted the present day offshoots of all of these. On sidings, huge stallion locomotives from far-away railroads have backed and champed; preposterously outmoded engines, like Shetland ponies, have pawed...
...There would be a priest if he was going to die." The Killers is about two men who go into a restaurant to shoot Ole Anderson. First they put the cook and the waiter in the kitchen. Then they talk to the proprietor and wait for Ole Anderson to come in. At five minutes to seven they decide he is not coming in. Nick ? the cook ? goes to see Anderson at his house. He says: " 'They were going to shoot you when you came in to supper.' 'There isn't any thing I can do about it.' 'Maybe...
...Maler Ludwig Koch of Austria, had been invited by the U. S. Polo Association, members of which had heard him spoken of abroad as "the finest painter of horses in the world," to come to the U. S. and make pictures of the International Polo matches. The Association urged 500 notables to visit the studio of Artist Koch at No. 127 Fulton Ave., Hempstead, L. I. Of the 500, one came to the studio. It became obvious to Artist Koch that in the U. S., unlike Europe where his works hang in museums, where artists speak of him almost with...
...discount rate decreed by the Federal Reserve Board has had two effects: 1) to cause U. S. capitalists to send gold out of the country to foreign countries where a higher yield is possible; 2) to cause foreign borrowers to come here and take gold credit out of the U. S. where it is cheap. In either case the gold is going...