Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the organ groaned softly Rev. Wolfgang Schanze braced himself for the 21-gun salute which he knew would blaze away as soon as the bride and groom exchanged rings in the Coburg fashion. "Dearly beloved," cried Pastor Schanze, "the formation of a marriage which can stand before God and man is no light thing. . . . For you, dear bride, it means hoisting your sails-toward a new life...
...placed on the program as a memorial to Patron Clark's son, William Andrews III, who was killed last spring in an airplane crash. The orchestra, the audience knew, was Clark's second son. He founded it in 1919, trailed it on its tours, in true paternal fashion made no complaint even when it ran into debt last year to the tune...
Like so many comedies of recent vintage, the offering this week at the Wilbur is concerned with marriage and executed in the breezy fashion popularized by Noel Coward. Henry Hull parades around in a water-soaked derby, a full dress suit, and a baby-pink blanket in a manner that would make Alfred Lunt gasp in admiration...
...friendly fashion, though not as if nothing had happened. Brazilian bankers gathered in bright, glamorous Rio last week to count the monetary cost of Brazil's ''bloodiest civil war in South American history" (TIME...
...Sayre's brief novel first published in the American Mercury last January. It uses a simpler technique than recent pictures in the same vein (Once in a Lifetime, The Phantom President) to attain hilarious absurdity. It simply allows the behavior of its characters, who are presented in straightforward fashion, to reach a logical extreme. Good shot: McGloin using a "lie detector" on a speakeasy proprietor...