Word: fontana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week New York police, looking to quiz him for practicing medicine without a license, learned that he was beyond their reach at Fontana, Cal. He had written a letter from general delivery, Los Angeles : "I have lost my position. I have lost all my money. I do not expect to return to New York for the rest of my life. . . . My only consolation is that this whole situation arose through circumstances entirely beyond my control." However, at Fontana last week the second Mrs. Empringham announced that he was on his way to Manhattan barely to face any accusations, medical...
...This Year of Grace" is a plain spectacle, not to be compared to the Broadway durbars of Mr. White and Mr. Carroll, and plumes and rosettes are absent from what Mr. Woollcott used to term the decor. Except for the miraculous waltzing of Mr. George Fontana and Miss Marjorie Moss, it is, in the matter if beauty, no great shakes, as Mr. St. John Ervine would call it. Mr. Walkley once said of Pavlowa that she was not like flame and wind, but that flame and wind were like her. I wish I had time to think of something equally...
Unhappily, Miles. Losch and Matthews are not in Manhattan; their subtle postures and cream-smooth notes are sadly needed. Of course, Marjorie Moss and Georges Fontana float through their waltz scene to threaten voidance of Pavlowa's lifelong lease on "incomparable." Madeline Gibson's demure loveliness forestalls unsympathetic accusations of vocal timidity. But with these exceptions there is no competent voice, no dexterous dancing in the entire revue...
Died. Queen Fontana, 5, record-breaking hen, at Fontana, Calif., of natural causes. She had just laid her 1174th egg, as contrasted with the average hen's life capacity of 270 (2 years),* and left 400,000 descendants...
...whose treacherous waters were the poet's grave. The site is not precisely the part of the shore where his body was found, but a much finer one, a mile or so north, where the rugged marble mountains of Carrara furnish a lofty, solemn background. The sculptor, Fontana, has already achieved distinction in works of impressive size-notably in the Garibaldi at Sarzana, and the newly erected Quadriga at Rome. Said Fontana: "We, too, claim some share in Shelley's memory. He lived and died among us. Prometheus has, I suppose haunted most sculptors. What fitter monument could...