Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unable to get in the actors' front door, I. A. T. S. E.'s President George Browne two months ago found a back door open. On charges of mismanagement, A. A. A. A. tried Executive Secretary Ralph Whitehead of its subsidiary union, the American Federation of Actors (vaudeville and variety...
In the 20 months since they took Shanghai from the Chinese, the Japanese have gradually tightened their censorship of the Chinese and English language press. Papers outside the International Settlement were easy to deal with, and even those inside have tactfully toned down their anti-Japanese news. But one newspaper...
Exorcised. Prince Tejansakti of Thai (formerly Siam), 5 weeks old; of evil spirits; in Virginia Water, Surrey, England, where his family and retinue are in comfortable exile. In a wordless, 1,000-year-old ceremony, Grandfather Prajadhipok (who abdicated the Siamese throne in 1935) and 20 guests made passes over...
Fortnight ago the trim, silver-bodied California Clipper winged out of San Francisco Bay on its first dress rehearsal. At its controls, in luckless Pilot Musick's place, was tough, tanned oldtimer Captain John Tilton; in her vasty belly a ten-man crew, 18 assorted observers. Some 17 hours...
At Newport News, Va. one noon last week Anna Eleanor Roosevelt cracked a bottle of U. S. champagne over the steel prow of the biggest, costliest (34,000-ton, $17,000,000) passenger ship ever made in the U. S., christened her America. As 30,000 well-wishers gave a...