Word: contests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jailed, its director kidnapped, the two Pittsburgh presentations have been hailed, applauded and even encouraged. The local "workers' theatre," which presented the piece as the New Theatre in Pittsburgh, is composed of the "shirt-sleeved amateurs" you mention in your article. This group entered the local Drama League Contest-a yearly competition of amateur groups sponsored by conservative Drama League (a stuffy organization of "drama enthusiasts")-won it easily-were awarded the Samuel French Trophy and $50-and next morning got headlines in the Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph's (Hearst) theatre page. A few days later, flushed...
...court contest over the legal character of ASCAP, with a long summer adjournment, will doubtless run well into the autumn. Whatever the result, chances are that there will be two more rounds, one in the Circuit Court of Appeals, another before the U. S. Supreme Court...
...Mill Neck, on Long Island's swank North Shore estate of onetime Aircraft Manufacturer Grover Cleveland Loening, 500 socialites gathered for a beauty contest between "16 Gorgeous, Glorious, Glamorous Girls, a Breath-taking Panoply of Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then...
...fabulous right-hand punch which had once killed a man. In all earnestness he had told reporters: "I'm scared stiff I'll kill Braddock. I dreamed last night I hurt the boy. I woke up in a cold sweat." Most sportswriters had branded the contest a gross mismatch, had almost unanimously picked Baer to win in the first few rounds. In the first three rounds the fun-loving Californian justified his reputation for high jinks. Dancing about in his black trunks adorned with a six-pointed Star of David, Baer feinted ferociously with his right, then danced...
Thus, in one mighty breath, does Jack Barrowcliffe nightly dispatch from Chicago's La Salle Street Station the Golden State Limited, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific's crack express to the West Coast. Last week, in Chicago, Dispatcher Barrow-cliffe and five other train-callers participated in a contest the like of which had never before been held-a train-calling competition in connection with Western Railroad Week. The contest was held from a flat car at Wabash Avenue and Madison Street in Chicago's "Loop." Some 2,000 people heard the proceedings through amplifiers, many thousands more...