Word: earl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earl Carroll's Vanities are rococo. Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies are smart. And yet, in spite of his overpowering, unwholesome gaudiness. Earl Carroll is probably a better showman than Florenz Ziegfeld. When he puts on his annual durbar there is a spontaneity to its promotion which Producer Ziegfeld strives painfully to attain. One night last week a crowd choked Manhattan's Seventh Avenue to witness the most recent, most important mile stone in Producer Carroll's theatrical career. He was presenting the ninth annual Vanities in the newest, largest U. S. playhouse...
...Earl Carroll has no sense of humor. But he has a remarkable gift for display. There is only one funny person in his show. A series of dirty jokes, very old, very stupid, are used to pass the time while more and more gorgeous settings are being made ready. Rousing climax of this element in the entertainment comes when five tons of chromium are lowered and a host of pretty girls in pale green are set to dancing before it. At another time, scores of undressed dancers with naked heels flash between glimmering crystal scimitars to Ravel's throbbing Bolero...
...Clans gathered at Glamis last week. Campbells, Rosses, Ferguses, MacDonalds, MacNeills and the rest all sent delegations to attend the 50th wedding anniversary of His Lordship Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kingshorne. For over 250 of its 800 years, Glamis Castle has been the property of the Bowes-Lyon family. Here by tradition Macbeth did murder Duncan (and sleep). Here Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon married King George's son, the Duke of York (TIME, May 5, 1923). Here their second child was born, the Princess Margaret Rose of York (TIME, Sept. 1, 1930). The Duke...
...first move was to send Chinese planes out over the district to make an accurate report of the extent of the damage. His second was to appoint John Earl Baker, U. S. adviser to the Chinese Ministry of Railways, an associate of the National Flood Relief Commission. Railman Baker has already had much experience in flood relief work. The Standard Oil, the British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd., the Bank of China, the Millers' Association offered to cooperate, helped with preliminary plans. From the Vatican Pope Pius XI sent some...
Born. To the ninth Earl of Bessborough, Governor-General of Canada; a son (he has been married since 1912, has two other children); in Montreal. The child is the first to be born to a Governor-General of Canada since the present Dowager Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava gave birth to a son in 1875. From George V came a request that he might be the boy's godfather...