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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, as Glyndebourne opened its fifth season of opera (eight weeks), fashionable Londoners piled into trains and automobiles for their annual pilgrimage. The 600 seats in Glyndebourne's diminutive opera house cost between $7.50 and $10 apiece, and dinner at Glyndebourne served between the acts adds another $2 to the visitor's bill...
...porch were routed by the billion-dollar entertainment industry of radio and the movies. When, four years ago. "Major" Edward Bowes put on his amateur shows, they were a radio novelty. But this season audience participation in radio has become radio's most pronounced program trend. The high cost of stars, dearth of headline talent and Depression II have all united to give radio entertaining back to people just like the people who listen in. This was proved again last week by two notable new listeners' shows added to the networks...
...Deere Wiman) sent first-nighters home humming and happy, drew cheers next day from song-starved critics. The show is hardly as good as all that though for the marriage of the season's most ethereal stage bride, Producer Wiman has provided a shimmering trousseau reputed to have cost $125,000; several wardrobefuls of beautiful bright clothes, a pile of lacy, hand-embroidered stage sets by Jo Mielziner, plenty of Rodgers silver tunes...
...threw into the House hopper a brand-new bill to establish in the State Department an Institute of Friendly American Relations with part of its job the operation of a Government station for broadcasting to the U. S. and other American republics. The Maverick Bill specifies neither location nor cost...
Married. Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, 40, pretender to the Hungarian throne; and Kathlin Bocskai, 22, onetime Hungarian schoolteacher; in Budapest. Like his cousin, Archduke Carlos (see above), Albrecht's marriage (his second) cost him his royal rank...