Word: fines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moment's notice, like a spare part in a machine. With a good assortment of such spare parts an operatic director can assemble operas almost as rapidly as mechanics assemble automobiles. And the spare parts being more or less standard the world over, he can Jend particularly fine spare parts, famous Siegfrieds, Rigolettos or Toscas, to other opera houses, and borrow theirs in return...
This system of operatic production, known among operagoers as the ''star system," has its advantages. It simplifies and speeds up rehearsal, and allows the public to hear a great number and variety of fine singers. But it also has disadvantages. Under it, an operatic cast is seldom rehearsed as a unit. Result: Operatic acting and staging, as a rule, is slipshod, routine, uncoordinated...
...Baltic cruise in 1937, Alan John Villiers, author of The Cruise of the Conrad and of many a lyric tribute to the beauty of sailing vessels, was surprised to see six fine full-rigged ships in one week. Two were Swedish, two Danish, one was Norwegian, one Polish. Because four square-rigged grain ships had been lost that year, Author Villiers had almost given up hope for them when the six vessels in the Baltic raised his spirits. They were schoolships...
...Princess Babs's" subsequent extravagances in Venice and elsewhere not only made great tabloid copy, but fine indignation material for columnists like Westbrook Pegler, who simmered: "At this writing your correspondent has not yet had time to visit any of the Woolworth 5-and-10? stores to observe the rejoicing. . . . It was pretty hard to keep the girls within bounds last winter when Woolworth's own little Babbie, the darling of the $10-a-week personnel, married the dream prince from Russia in a love match as pure as anything in the matrimonial record of the Goulds...
...grizzly-bear strength. (Hugged impulsively by Freuchen, the wife of a German cinema director slumped to the floor unconscious, was taken to the hospital with two broken ribs.) In Denmark Author Freuchen went to work to make money with as much frank delight as if he were harpooning a fine catch of seals. Marrying a beautiful margarine heiress, he began lecturing, wrote Polar news for a Copenhagen newspaper, became editor of a magazine started by his in-laws to lend prestige to the margarine business. When Freuchen was gypped, as when he bought his island estate, Enehoje, or when...