Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concerning Charles Wakefield Cadman's Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras, TIME, Dec. 13, I have a bit of additional information...
...Portland Junior Symphony Orchestra, of which I was second clarinetist and bass clarinetist for several seasons, presented Dark Dancers in concert Feb. 5, 1935, Mr. Cadman at the piano. The music was of course played from manuscript. On each sheet, the title was written on a slip of paper pasted over some previous heading, which, after steaming off the paper slips, turned out to be Dance of Scarlet Sister Mary. Needless to say, those of us who were "in on the know" procured and devoured (somewhat secretively in a few cases I fear) copies of that book. Concert night...
Last October 28 a German astronomer, Dr. Karl Reinmuth of Heidelberg, noticed a faint white streak against the dark background of an astronomical photograph. A similar streak was discovered on a plate exposed at Johannesburg in South Africa. Such streaks reveal small, comparatively nearby objects moving across the sky at high speeds as contrasted with the relatively fixed positions of the stars. This wanderer, christened "Object Reinmuth 1937 U. B.," appeared to be several miles in diameter.* Its orbit was calculated from the streaks. Last week, after all danger was past, Johannesburg astronomers announced that in October the earth...
Divorced. Alfonso, Count of Covadonga, hemophilic former Crown Prince of Spain; by dark Marta Rocafort, his second Cuban wife within a year; in Havana...
...cleared to the semifinals. But there calculations began to go amiss. Opposed were Isadore Bellis, seeded second, and Joseph Fishbach, seeded fourth; William Gillespie, seeded first, and Marvin Kantrowitz, seeded third. Fishbach and Kantrowitz trounced their opponents in straight sets, prepared to face off in the final. Both slim, dark New York City boys, they learned their tennis together on a concrete court back of the De Witt Clinton High School in The Bronx. Two years ago when they were high-school seniors they played together on the team that won the New York interscholastic tennis championship. Then Kantrowitz went...