Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primarily for mountain folk exists Berea College at Berea, Ky. Only 7% of its 1,600 students are admitted from regions outside the Southern Appalachians. Half the students work their way through the Foundation-Junior High School, Academy and College, earn about 76% of their total expenses. No one is too poor to enter. A 16-year-old is not too young; a 63-year-old not too aged. Students are supposed to have $17 for room & board for the first term, but one girl was admitted with 63?. Tuition costs nothing. Berea's deficits are made...
...opposite John Gilbert in His Glorious Night, with Lawrence Tibbett in The Rogue Song, with Levis Stone in Strictly Unconventional. She announces as the reason for turning her back on the Golden Calf of Hollywood a need to "help her technique." Miss Owen is not alone among oldtime film folk, some definitely shelved by film producers, who have gone to Broadway this year to help their techniques and, as Baseball Manager "Gabby" Street would say, for the profit, too. Some of the renegades have done better than others. Miss Pauline Starke's frightening Zombie was shortlived on Broadway...
...Spenser to use the Arthurian legend in a poem which glorified his sovereign on the basis of national legend. During her reign Arthurian interests were abundant, and those interests were abundant, and those interested in the backgrounds and sources of English poetry will find little-known treasures of British folk-lore and myth...
...agenting was done for Oscar Hammerstein's opera company, which became overnight a threatening rival to the Metropolitan. At the Metropolitan he ignored changing fashions, kept his courtly, old-school ways, his Windsor ties, his tufted goatee, his hair long. His office was a celebrated rendezvous for newspaper-folk. Behind his rolltop desk hung his own definition of relativity- "There is no hitching post in the universe" -across which Albert Einstein wrote last year "Gelesen und richtig befunden...
Polly of the Circus (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a product of that school of cinematic thought which believes that all ministers of the gospel should be wholesome, naïve souls whose love is pure, and that all low-born theatrical folk promptly speak correct English as soon as they take to reading the Bible and consorting with the proper people. The picture might have been interesting because it brought together for the first time Marion Davies and Clark Gable (with the latter's name in larger type in all press advertisements except in Hearstpapers). But the combination contributes...