Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perfect Marriage (by Arthur Goodrich; William Caryl, producer). At a cottage in Auvergne, Bernard Catalan, an aged French playwright, and his wife are about to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. So notably harmonious has this marriage been that the President of the Republic and the Academy send felicitations. The old folks coo and hold hands. Whereupon appears Louise Morel (Fay Bainter), the playwright's secretary in his earlier days. Off go the wigs and greasepainted wrinkles as Mile Morel begins to tell her story of how Mme Catalan once had a weak moment with an actor and M. Morel once...
...performance Caruso ever gave. There he sat the night plump little Marcella Sembrich sang her farewell; the night Geraldine Farrar first appeared as the ragged goosegirl in Die Königskinder, surrounded by a flock of live geese which she insisted on having against all other judgment; the night golden-haired Maria Jeritza gave her first breath-taking performance of Tosca and astounded New Yorkers by singing the Vissi d' arte lying flat on the stage; the night Marion Talley made her debut with a delegation from Kansas City to ballyhoo her placid, immature performance; the night Antonio Scotti...
What the late great John Pierpont Morgan banished from New York 25 years ago, the great golden-haired Maria Jeritza last week brought back?almost. In Europe the role of Salome in Richard Strauss's opera is one of the most celebrated of the many which Jeritza sings. For ten years she has wanted above all things to sing it in New York. But the Metropolitan Opera Company would not permit Jeritza or any other soprano to behave like Salome on its respectable stage, to shed seven veils one after the other in the notorious dance before King Herod...
Engineers estimated that it would take them four years to hang a bridge across the Golden Gate. Last week exactly half that time had elapsed since a $35,000,000 bond issue was voted to finance the Golden Gate Suspension Bridge.? But not a single strand of cable swung silhouetted against the sunset. The two years have been filled with legal wrangling...
...explanation of every phenomenon of the present day is, of course, the depression. Lack of money is in a large part responsible for better marks. An empty purse removes that itching urge to waste golden hours at the theatre or in the more flamboyant dance halls. There are fewer of the enormous coming-out parties which prove such a drain on the time of undergraduates. The increased competition for scholarships has had a most salutary effect...