Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Long have composers wagged reproving fingers at the cinema, regarding it as a disorderly small boy whose grubby touch has too often smutted the dress of their lady, Music. Last week, one Josiah Zuro, Presentation Director in a Manhattan cinema theatre, pointed to a way by which composers, by casting an eye to the education of that same grimy juvenile, might better themselves, serve their, mistress to boot. "The cinema," said he, "needs opera-thumbnail opera. It needs opera to take the place of 'presentations'." Who does not know these presentations? In that uneasy ten minutes which intervenes...
...particularly interesting," went on Professor Munro, "There are a number of Russian Jews, who call themselves 'pioneers'. They emigrated to Palestine, and are farming the country with striking success. These young men and women, the latter of whom bob their hair, are between 20 and 30 years old, and dress and act very much like college men and girls in America. They are the most virile part of the movement, but they are not Jewish by religion. They are free thinkers...
Brandeis. Miss Susan Brandeis, Manhattan, was educated at Bryn Mawr College, schooled in law at Chicago University. She is third partner in the law firm of Kirsch, Edelman and Brandeis. She scorns feminine foibles in dress and manner, works hard, studies harder, plays little. On levity, on publicity, she pours disdain. She sits late, rises early. As special assistant district attorney she prosecuted anti-trust cases for the State of New York. "My daughter," says Justice Brandeis, "is a self-made...
...next minute, seven Egyptian students wearing effendi dress drew their revolvers and riddled the car with bullets. Sir Lee Stack fell to the bottom of the automobile mortally wounded; he had been hit in the stomach, hand, foot. Captain P. K. Campbell, aide-de-camp, was slightly wounded in the chest; and the chauffeur, an Englishman...
...wish to take part may report this afternoon at Westmorly 146 between 1:30 and 3 o'clock to be measured for costumes. The work will be light, requiring attendance at the dress rehearsal Sunday and the following rehearsals next week, in addition to performances beginning December 8. Men who act in the mob will receive complimentary tickets to the performances...