Word: galas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Employes of the Union Pacific Railway have been rather gently admonished that it will be much the best for them to allow their facial hay to grow in preparation for those two gala days. . . . Some men with beards growing have become very well pleased with the effect and several have vowed to keep their beards after the world premiere is over...
...Five nights before his 57th birthday, Franklin Roosevelt motored over to Fort Myer, Va. to a gala Army horseshow, proceeds of which (around $3,000) began this year's anti-infantile paralysis collection in his honor. With him he took Mrs. Roosevelt, horse-loving Harry Hopkins, and Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, currently under fire in the House...
...handsomer Museum of Modern Art. The proximity is fitting, for the Trocadero is to house the choicest examples in France of primitive and folk art, twin toys of modernism. Last week the "Museum of Man" in the west half of the Trocadéro was completed with the gala opening of an American Room...
Pianists Josef and Rosina Lhevinne gave a gala concert at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, commemorating their marriage as well as their joint debut 40 years ago. The smooth length of their married life (rare for virtuosos) Mrs. Lhevinne credited to: 1) frequent separations; 2) occasional quarrels; 3) mutual understanding...
Present at the gala premiere were a quorum of Hollywood actresses, cinema celebrities like Darryl Zanuck, Jack Warner, Cecil B. DeMille, who had paid $1,000 each for "lifetime" cover charges, permission to sit in an "inner circle." Chunks of scenery fell down, the show was an hour late, the revolving stages failed to turn properly, microphones went dead, a disappearing platform jerked the prima donna out of sight during one of her songs, and a waiter dropped a trayful of dishes during a dance spectacle. Hollywood pronounced the opening a success...