Word: ets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among all the critics of the Army's semiautomatic Garand rifle (TIME, May 6, et seq.), none has been more acid than the U. S. Marine Corps. But none was more discreet. Marines confined their criticisms to barrack-room griping and a few oblique references at Congressional hearings. Reasons: the Corps is part of the Navy, in many matters is therefore subject to the Navy hierarchy, but the Marines get their weapons and ammunition from the War Department, whose ordnance officers developed and cherished the Garand...
...Rooney walked into Federal Court in Manhattan, filed petition for bankruptcy. His assets: $252, and a job entertaining at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe. Liabilities: to touched friends George M. Cohan, $200; Ben Bernie, $200; Harry Richman, $100; Ollie Olsen, $25; Bob Hope, $25; Victor Moore, $100; et...
...show involved more theatrical hokum than Belasco cooked up in a life time; jiltings, blackmailings, fake marriages, et al. Last week reality caught up with it. Heavy with her third child by her third husband, Swimmer Peter Pick, Daughter Donna ran through her lines as Marge one day, died 14 and a half hours later in Englewood, N. J. delivering...
...haired, soft-faced, 78-year-old refugee in Manhattan, went to Philadelphia to hear an opera. As he entered the old Academy of Music, he said grimly: "I will sit through it to the end, no matter that I do not like it." The opera was Pelléas et Meélisande, music by Achille-Claude Debussy, drama by Maurice Maeterlinck. Although Pelléas was first performed nearly 40 years ago, its author had never sat through a production...
...Comique had other ideas: he chose a young singer from the U. S., Mary Garden. When Maeterlinck heard the news, he set off, cane in hand, to give Debussy a thrashing. He gave the composer no more than a fright, but wrote to Le Figaro wishing Pelléas et Meélisande "immediate and emphatic failure." It turned out to be a success, and Maeterlinck stayed away from it. In 1920, persuaded to attend a Mary Garden performance in Manhattan, he walked out in the second...