Word: commands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Bohème Grace Moore received 18 curtain calls. After the second, London bobbies had to link hands to make a path for her from the stage entrance. Grace Moore's third performance, again in La Boheme, was given last week by royal command. Though the King was slightly indisposed at Sandringham, good Queen Mary went to Covent Garden, sat the opera out in the Royal box, smilingly applauded during 15 curtain calls...
...Grace Moore is not one to be down-carted by what the critics say or to be too puffed up over the presence of royalty in the audience. After her command performance last week she told the Press: "I have sung before six Kings and three Presidents so last night was no novelty. . . . I had long and interesting talks with the Prince of Wales and the Duke and Duchess of York. . . ." As for the King and Queen: "Maybe I've already met them but I'm not telling...
Paramount did not go down without a struggle. There was nothing fundamentally wrong with its first & foremost function- making, distributing and exhibiting films. Its troubles were almost wholly financial. And in 1931 its bankers cajoled John Daniel Hertz into taking the Paramount command as chairman of the finance committee. The thickset, sinewy Chicago financier had been making half-hearted attempts to retire since 1926 when he sold his Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. to General Motors for more than a few millions...
...Their anger was against the poor Government, not against rich Roan. Last week the black mob swarmed into Roan Antelope's mine compound at Luanshya, wrecked it, turned to the company offices, demolished them, swarmed toward the power house. The white police advanced. An officer gave the command to fire. The corpses of six kinky-polled blacks were left behind in the dust after their fellows had stampeded away. When 300 of the survivors had been thrown into jail, the rest went back to the mines. The white men went out for a round of golf on courses with...
With the departure of Brother Herbert went other changes in Socony's high command. John A. Brown, executive committee chairman, was made president, and President Charles E. Arnott stepped down to a vice-presidency in order to devote more time to his plans for stabilizing the oil industry...