Word: comic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honor to Siegfried Wagner, who died a year ago, a pre-Festival performance of his comic opera An allem ist Hütchen schuld (Blame It All on a Little Hat) was given in the old rococo Margrave's Opera. Came many a Wagnerite, including Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and buxom Frau Wagner who with her four children carries on the dynasty...
...metropolitan gem set in a mountain wasteland. The finest mechanical equipment was bought. In the early days of the Mergenthaler linotype machine, the Anaconda Standard at one time had more of them in operation than had any Manhattan daily. When Richard F. Outcault's "Yellow Kid" ushered colored comics into the Manhattan field, Publisher Daly had to have some, sent for Thorndyke, Trowbridge, Loomis, then three of the highest-priced newspaper artists in the country. Color decks and photo-engraving equipment were rushed to Anaconda and the Standard produced its own four-page colored comic supplement...
Magazines which consist "mainly of fiction" will be taxed 15? per pound with a minimum tax of 15? per copy. So will the comic sections and feature sections of newspapers. (U. S. Sunday papers now sell at 10? or 15? in Canada.) Moreover, no tax rebate will be allowed on unsold copies...
...lake, spends long days swimming. Soon other Ravinia favorites will appear in the season's two remaining novelties: Soprano Lucrezia Bori and Tenor Edward Johnson in Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, and tall, dark French Soprano Yvonne Gall in La Basoche, Andre Messager's gay comic opera. Chicago believes that this season's deficit (last year's was $241,000) will be large as usual, and even larger for Patron Eckstein: other guarantors already feel pinched. But to all rumors of any change in policy Patron Eckstein replies: "Ravinia will never be permitted
Pope Pius had abandoned his demands for "apology," said the State. Yes, retorted the Church, but His Holiness still demanded "reassuring words." He has had our expression of "regret"' countered the State. But that was not "reassuring," objected the Church. Comic was a discovery at the Italian Foreign Office that mixed with the morning's mail was an unstamped diplomatic note of the first importance from Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State. How did it get there? Not through the mail. It was not brought by the Papal Ambassador, for he had not called. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi...