Word: finest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, The Seven Lively Arts is quite a show. It has, to begin with, the finest comedienne on the stage today, Beatrice Lillie. Back to Broadway after five years abroad, but saddled with unworthy material, Actress Lillie performs one of the greatest feats of theatrical alchemy on record. It is just too bad that her satiric and high-comedy gifts are devoted to such smarty songs and Winter Gardenish sketches...
...Henry E. Huntington put an end to such lighthearted operations. He grabbed up the tangle of lines, sorted them into four efficient systems. By 1910, Los Angeles County probably had the nation's finest interurban system and fastest city lines. But Huntington, worried about the automobile, unloaded everything but the Los Angeles city system on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Los Angeles took to the auto as did few other cities. Huntington could not make his Los Angeles Railway pay. Politicos kept in office for years merely by fighting him and an increase in the 5? fare. When Huntington died...
...critic-collector-connoisseur of modern art has compiled a booklet of such pungent, provocative aphorisms: Of Art-Plato to Picasso (Wittenborn; $1.50), published last week. Compiler Albert Eugene Gallatin, a painter himself, knows well the vicissitudes of collecting. His own famed "Museum of Living Art" is one of the finest collections of 20th-century...
...great Italian bass, Ezio Pinza; as Mephistopheles and as Don Giovanni, he proved again that he is the Metropolitan's brightest star. Another was the expert conducting of Hungarian-born George Szell, who, since the departure of Sir Thomas Beecham and Bruno Walter, is the Met's finest maestro. During the opening week six young U.S. singers made their first Metropolitan appearances. Of them, the likeliest future headliners seemed...
...Chicago Art Institute's own great modern painting by the 19th-Century French Artist Georges Seurat-Sunday Afternoon on Grande Jatte Island, often called the finest single picture of its period...