Word: gale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scout, convoy on the first lap, had left the Ranpura's side and H. M. S. Veteran was waiting in harbor to begin the second lap, when the treasure ship steamed into the Bay of Gibraltar last week in the midst of a stiff southeaster. The gale picked up the helpless Ranpura, swept it aground on Punta Mala ("Bad Spot") in the northwest corner of the bay. Three Admiralty tugs rushed" to the rescue, but their steel hawsers snapped repeatedly in the foaming seas...
Original sets by Edward Melcharth, famous London director, will provide a background for Dunster House actors in "Marriage a la Mode" tomorrow night. The production is being managed and directed by Robert Gale Noyes, author and composer of last year's opers and well known for his before-the-curtain talks. A Lawrence Lowell '77, president-emeritus, will be a guest at the House Dinner preceding the play and subsequent festivities...
...boats. He is now Broadway's No. 1 ticket speculator. As body & soul of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, with Fisticuffer Joe Louis under exclusive contract, he has virtually a strangle hold on the U. S. prizefight business. Last week Mike Jacobs entered a new field. Amid a gale of sarcastic laughter from sportswriters, he set out to remove the game of contract bridge from the nation's drawing rooms to the nation's hippodrome...
...that he encouraged her to prepare for leading roles, then refused to let her perform unless she paid him a guarantee of $5,500. Similar rumors kept popping. Critic Glenn Dillard Gunn of the Herald & Examiner openly asserted that Ethel Leginska had paid for the production of her opera, Gale. Soprano Lola Fletcher admitted privately that she had to pay $125 to sing Musetta in La Boheme...
...cliffs of the Cornwall coast. Leginska worked like a fury at rehearsals, got telling results from orchestramen. It was not her fault that the performance began a half hour late, that Morwenna, supposedly a middle-aged character, was mistaken for the youthful heroine or that Baritone John Charles Thomas (Gale) will never be an actor...