Word: folke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None of this prevented Los Angeles' hundreds of publicity-minded folk from gleefully using the smog for their own purposes. Singer Jo Stafford arrived in town carrying two caged canaries, cracked: "It's an old miner's trick; if the canaries die I go back to New York...
Diagonal Demons. From the pit, Igor Stravinsky's 40-year-old score blazed as never before: Stravinsky himself had cut down the instrumentation from the original no pieces to 55, given the score new warmth, color and compactness. Choreographer George Balanchine had scrapped Fokine's original Russian-folk-dancy choreography completely, put his more Oriental Bird and Prince on more acrobatic tiptoe...
Movie stars and lesser folk who dropped into Los Angeles' Brown Derby, La Rue's and Romanoff's restaurants last week found little warning cards on the tables. The warning: don't eat our steaks. At $5.50 to $7.50 apiece, they were "entirely too much," because of the rise in wholesale costs. Begged La Rue's: "Stop eating steaks for awhile and bring these prices down...
...Selected Writings will "give readers a chance to assess Critic Cowley's statement that Hearn's "folk tales are the most valuable part of [his work] ... He is the writer in our language who can best be compared with Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm." Many readers will cast their votes in favor of the blunt, naturalistic American Sketches, where Author Hearn's florid prose frames some breathtaking sights in19th Century Cincinnati's Sausage Row and the New Orleans voodoo belt...
...students, guests of the National Student Association, Student Council, and Crimson Key, will tour the University today and will perform with the Folk Dance Society at Sargent tonight...