Word: counts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light opera might be offended by a humorous or credible plot. Three Waltzes in this respect is singularly inoffensive. Its charm lies in tuneful music, ebullient singing and dancing, vivid staging. In a ballet school, with costumes after Degas, begins the luckless romance of the ballerina (Kitty Carlisle) and Count Rudolph (Michael Bartlett). In Paris of 1900 the same pair appear as another ill-starred couple, with the ballet converted into Toulouse-Lautrec girls doing a violent cancan. At last, in a contemporary cinema studio, the lovers, as descendants of their former selves, find their happy ending...
...Born. To Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italy's Foreign Minister, and Edda Mussolini, Countess Ciano, influential daughter of Il Duce: their third child, a son; in Rome...
...most of the 200 writers who give the U. S. its surfeit of literary talk get no such fees. In the declining scale of rates, a best-selling author like Dorothea Brande (Wake Up and Live!) can count on getting $500 a lecture, while best-selling writers of the stature of Carl Carmer (Stars Fell on Alabama) are quoted at $200. The majority of lectures are delivered at prices ranging between $100 and $200, and in the case of impromptu readings of poets or proletarian novelists to radical groups, rates finally taper off to $5 an evening or just...
...Just before the bell, for the first time in his career, he finally dropped to the canvas. For the eighth round, Thomas walked into the ring bleary-eyed. Schmeling hit him with a right and he went down again. Schmeling confidently turned to a neutral corner, but at the count of "One," Thomas was up after him. Schmeling slugged him again, and again he arose at "One." Four more times he went down under Max Schmeling's famed "Sunday punch," and each time rose ready to fight. The crowd, sickened by the sight, screamed "Stop it, stop it." Referee...
...grandsons are in the firm, as is a great-grandson of Jay Cooke. It also has a partner named Fish. As old Mr. Barney approached 50 another firm was founded in Philadelphia by the late Edward Brinton Smith, a railroad & utility banker. In Philadelphia, where such things count, Edward B. Smith & Co. was socially the equal of Chas. D. Barney & Co., and financially it was not scorned even by Drexel & Co. (branch of J. P. Morgan). During the War, however, Edward B. Smith & Co. lost ground, and the founder's son Albert and a group of young partners headed...