Word: galas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lawns to watch pinwheels swoosh round, rockets sizzle high into the sky. It was the eve of the first birthday of Spain's Republic, the anniversary of the day Alfonso XIII fled from his country. Airplanes dropped 50,000 little red, yellow and purple parachutes; there were gala football matches and bullfights. Pink with pleasure, tousle-haired President Niceto Alcala Zamora reviewed 10,000 troops in the Castellana avenue, presided over a lunch to the diplomatic corps. He was too excited to remember to go to a broadcasting studio in time to speak to the Americas. Madrid crowds, never...
...page supplement full of advertisements all welcoming Dr. Brinkley and XER. Full-page advertisers were headed by the Del Rio Chamber of Commerce, which blurbed: "We have the utmost faith & confidence in Dr. & Mrs. J. R. Brinkley and those who made this great station possible." Cinema theatres advertised "XER Gala Week" featured by the Four Marx Brothers in Monkey Business. Dr. Brinkley and XER filled seven of the eight columns on the News's front page. The whole city went on a three-day jubilee, featured by a banquet in honor of Dr. Brinkley. Dr. Brinkley was not there...
...atmosphere of the show was gala, if varied. There were circus acts, pet stock judging, live stock judging, vaudeville, dramatic presentations by local Thespians. One booth was occupied by ladies of the W. C. T. U., another by the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Little country boys of the 4-H Club were housed with the rabbits and poultry in the nearby "Highlands," a onetime funpark. Their eyes popped open a little wider at the exhibit of Milwaukee's ever-hopeful Pabst Corp.: an oldtime saloon, complete with brass rail, sawdust, shiny glassware...
...companies, she got the lead role in The Trial of Mary Dugan. Her first picture, Paris Bound, was an immediate, brilliant success. Now she has a $6,000-a-week contract, is the only cinemactress in Hollywood who has had three of her pictures given what are known as "gala world premieres." For her birthday two months ago, her husband, Cinemactor Harry Bannister, gave her a $35,000 play house which contains a gymnasium, tennis court, bowling alley, cinema theatre with 40 seats. In addition to tennis and bowling, Cinemactress Harding likes avocadoes, Donn Byrne's novels, Persian cats...
...staples like La Traviata and Rigoletto. He has been paid well by the Metropolitan Opera. But he says that the U. S. is culturally immature, that he will stay in Europe next year when his contract expires. There he is more appreciated. In Paris, for instance, it is a gala occasion when he sings as guest star; the Opera pushes up its prices a bit (usually $3.20 for best orchestra seats) and all over town one reads LAURI-VOLPI. Artists find Paris a pleasing contrast to Manhattan, where the Metropolitan is reticent about announcing its operas...