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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring, another for fall. Last week, with an advance sale of 18,000 seats, St. Louis' brand-new opera opened its first season with a performance of Die Walküre (starring Lauritz Melchior and Marjorie Lawrence). Said the new company's manager, James E. Darst: "Grand opera cannot fail if St. Louis is really a big league town. And we're betting that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big-League Opera | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...JAMES E. DARST...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Fortnight ago officers of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association approached Manager James E. Darst of St. Louis' Municipal Auditorium, suggested that he sell only soft drinks at the bar during the annual school superintendents' convention. Instead Manager Darst added two extra bartenders. Last week the convention ended and Manager Darst could preen himself on his acumen. The 8,000 superintendents had consumed more liquor at his bar than did the American Legion last autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Superintendents in St. Louis | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...Texas wildflower. According to Edgar Davis' theosophic conception of things, Divine Providence had led him to money and it was his holy duty to spend it. But after the failure of The Ladder the Davis successes grew fewer. His North & South Development Co. continued to wildcat in the Darst Creek and Buckeye Fields, but brought in no spectacular wells. Promoter Davis traveled less frequently, gave fewer dinner parties, confined himself to quiet bridge games and an occasional art lecture. All of his remaining capital went into the drilling of hugely expensive "deep oil" holes which invariably turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Money from God | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

...There would be Holy Communion, celebrated by the Cathedral's Dean George Carl Fitch Bratenahl, and a sermon, broadcast to the U. S. by stocky Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman, Bishop of Washington. There would be a procession in which would march representatives of other sects and Episcopal Bishops Darst of East Carolina, Abbott of Lexington, Ky., Jett of Southwestern Virginia, Cook of Delaware, Rhinelander (retired) of Pennsylvania. Most Rev. James De Wolf Perry, Presiding Bishop of the Church, was to send as his representative Bishop Hugh Latimer Burleson of South Dakota. New York's small Bishop Manning agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For National Purposes | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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