Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some $200,000 from advance ticket sales had been taken in at the box office. Prices had been boosted to $6.60 top. Even so, there were still more customers than the opera house would hold. Again big names have done the trick, along with San Francisco's opera fever. Flagstad and Melchior are returning with an established drawing power. Soprano Lotte Lehmann will be another headliner along with Rethberg, Martinelli, Lawrence Tibbett, Friedrich Schorr, Charles Kullmann, Emanuel List, all from the Metropolitan roster. Faced with the most strenuous job of the San Francisco season is the Wagnerian conductor, this...
...GOLD FEVER-L. M. Nesbitt-Harcourt, Brace...
...Gold Fever is the work of Lewis Mariano Nesbitt (The Hell Hole of Creation) who was killed last year in an airplane crash in Switzerland. A series of sketches of gold mining on the Rand, South Africa, it is based on Nesbitt's experiences as an engineer there in 1912 and is written with considerable literary distinction. It is noteworthy for its account of the great miners' strike of 1913, for its sketches of Nesbitt's fellow-miners, for some poetic but subdued descriptions of life 7,000 ft. underground...
...late, great imperialist, Minor Cooper Keith. In 1871 Keith went to the pestilential coast town of Limon in Costa Rica to build a railroad inland. In ten years he was $1,000,000 in the hole with 70 miles built and 4,000 men dead of malaria and yellow fever. To give the railroad something to haul he started to plant bananas at about the time people started eating them in the U. S. He finished that rail road, built others, on banana money. In 1899 he merged his railroads and plantations with Andrew W. Preston's Boston Fruit...
Dartmouth's '31 has practically the same number (30) of lawyers, teachers, doctors, bankers and insurance agents. Other occupations vary from politicians to ski school proprietors to ladies underwear to junk dealers to yellow fever research to CCC officers to the Yankees (Red Rolfe) to airlines...