Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate it shows that we are living in a small world when college professors read meat advertisements of rural midwestern towns and make comment thereof in their official college papers. If our advertisements are good reading for folks in the "High-bat' East they must be alright for us of the "common" Midwest. And it also goes to show it pays to advertise. -Clipped from the "Sleepy Eye Progressive...
This experience in lay writing started Maxwell Anderson, University of North Dakota, II, in a field of rich creation. Before then, he had vascillated between an academic career (school teaching in the Dakotas and the English department at Stanford) and writing for pay (newspaper work on two coasts, east and west). After What Price Glory he wrote nearly a hit a year. In 1930 it was Elizabeth the Queen, in 1933 Mary of Scotland. Both Your Houses won the Politzer prize. A month of so ago his friendly enemies, the New York critics, awarded him a plaque for having written...
...therefore his last chance. The next in line would claim that he had attended all the Maestro's concerts, that he could not miss the last. Speculators were offered $100 and more for a ticket. In Portland, Ore. a music-lover was ready to charter a plane, ily East for the performance. He stayed home, because no amount of money could get him a seat. Inside the Hall bedlam would have been let loose again, except for the little white-haired Maestro. He bowed gravely to his wildly-cheering audience, wheeled on his podium, rapped smartly for attention. Toscanini...
...Grace Adams East of Berkeley, Calif, is a sure mistress of the trumpet, which she first took up to develop breath control when she thought seriously of becoming a singer. She proved her feeling for tone last week with Schubert's Du bist die Ruh' and the Ave Maria, her facility at triple-tonguing with Rimsky-Korsakoy's Hymn to the Sun, her physical stamina when at the end of her program she played three encores...
...East let herself out more freely lately when she stood on a pinnacle over-looking the Grand Canyon, played The Last Round-Up "in memory of my friendship for Will Rogers." Her wind at an altitude of 8,000 feet was so amazing to a cowboy that he said: "Lady, I think you're wonderful. We've never had a prizefight that lasted more than two rounds up here and I think you lasted about nine with that horn!" When not trumpeting Mrs. East runs a bookstore on the University of California's campus...