Word: folks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tried & true ingredients for large-scale musical melodrama, High, Wide and Handsome omits none, from folk dancing to the scene in which Sally, temporarily estranged from her husband, sings in a tent show. Produced by Arthur Hornblow in the magniloquent tradition of screen plays like Showboat and San Francisco, directed with broad strokes by Rouben Mamoulian, it is shrewd, symphonic, sentimental mass entertainment, which should satisfy most cinemaddicts, surprise almost none. Good shot: a carnival strong man tossing Red Scanlon into a creek. The Toast of New York (RKO) exhibits Edward Arnold, previously seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John...
Many an expansive toper, eager to visit a sick, old, or girl friend, has hired a taxi for an inter-city journey. Sober folk also occasionally take long cab trips. Spinster Catherine Bruen of Brewster, N. Y. has made two round-trip taxi rides to Bellingham, Wash. Homeward-bound from Mexico City last week were 76-year-old Emily Curtis Fisher of Norwood and three other Massachusetts ladies who chartered a sedan and driver from Jack's Taxi Service for the journey. Extraordinary as these treks may seem, they were topped by a trip which last week ended...
...Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Dancer Roberta Jonay (Jones), recently a fortnight guest at the White House (TIME, June 21), made her big time debut doing a Hungarian folk dance. Back at her ringside table she received the congratulations of her guests: Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., whose friendship she won after being introduced by her fiance. Earl Miller, onetime (1929-32) Albany bodyguard to the President, now personnel director of the New York State Department of Correction. The California Osteopathic Association attributed much of the success of dancers...
...real calling was to preserve U. S. folklore. Miss Knott got help from old George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard, North Carolina's Paul Green, the late Novelist Mary Austin and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt. By 1934 she had interested enough volunteer talent to put on the first National Folk Festival in St. Louis. She arranged the second Festival in Chattanooga, last year's in Dallas. Envoys from colleges and towns, winners of State Festivals were welcomed. Some sponsor always paid the deficit. This year Chicago's Adult Education Council agreed to give $12,000 and Chicago...
Syndicated features are supplied by the National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service, whose headquarters is Washington, D. C. For young folk Susan Russell writes "Pen Pals-Intimate Chats with the Catholic Girl." President Fitzpatrick, once a Baltimore Sun sports editor, syndicates his baseball articles under the title "Heads Up!" No matter how it starts, "Heads Up!" always produces a moral homily...