Word: folke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Jacob Koppel Sandier, 74, composer of Eili, Eili, famed Jewish lament (often thought to be an old folk-song), oldtime choirmaster and musician in East Side Manhattan theatres; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Composed in 1896 for a Yiddish play, the song attained great popularity, but Mr. Sandier did not copyright it until 1919, never received more than a tithe of his rightful royalties...
...Wild West Riders of the World - the Van de Velde Family, "Greatest gymnasts of all time!"-Mayme Ward, the only lady catcher in the world and her troupe of Flying Wards (29 people in the air at one & the same time!)- who would be hiring and advertising such folk but the greatest show-business man now on earth, John Ringling...
Dante ranks Cervantes. But, put Chandor in panties; By that you will act wittily. Will please the folk in Italy; Whilst those in Spain Will feel no pain! Quixote seems to live again...
...sentiment but built with less logic than most German stories; it tells of a woman so anxious to give mother love that she kidnaps a little girl. Heimatsklänge is a travelog showing pretty views of Rotenburg, Dinkelsbühl, Wertheim, and Fussen; it is synchronized with German folk music. Gretel und Liesel is a good comedy about two sisters, one neat & kindly, the other shrewish, with a plot to give the kindly one a dowry...
...many years ago, sensational newspapers achieved what was then considered the height of impudence by heralding I he confinements of newsworthy women. STORK HOVERS would be the caption over the photograph of a cinemactor's wife. Seldom were other than stage or him folk and royalty labelled as prospective parents- until about 1927 when Gossip-Colyumist Walter Winchell began to set the pace with preobstetrical reports upon couples in every stratum of society. Last week, as casually as if it were mentioning the departure of a socialite for Palm Beach, Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis' polite New York Evening...