Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pasadena Community Playhouse. The Playhouse was founded by oldtime Actor Gilmor Brown 19 years ago. This year the Legislature bestowed on it the title of "The State Theatre of California" (but no subsidy). To signalize this honor, Founder Brown had for months been bustling about his office full of goldfish, canaries and tiny turtles, arranging an imposing sequence of seven plays, which began June 28, called "The Story of the Southwest." Five of the plays are old: Gerhart Hauptmann's Montezuma, Maxwell Anderson's Night Over Taos, Franz Werfel's Juarez and Maximilian, David Belasco...
...Kentucky until last week, even a goldfish theoretically had some right of privacy. After what happened in the Common Pleas Branch of the 30th District Circuit Court in Louisville last week and unless the Kentucky Court of Appeals reverses the decision, though a goldfish may still have that right, a teacher in a tax-supported school or college lacks...
...possible, to dramatize Coronet's, contents, the show's material was not restricted to this specification. Said NBC's publicity department: "Deems Taylor is the absolute dictator. . . . He balks at nothing. ... He and his musicians and radio actors have interpreted . . . the photograph of a bowl of goldfish . . . four bananas dancing on a piece of wallboard...
...groups: six to nine, nine to twelve, twelve and over. The American history course this year is dramatizing the past of eleven U. S. cities. The Science Club broadcasts simple experiments to be performed by the listener, such as opening and inspecting a dry cell battery or observing goldfish in a pan of deaerated water to prove that fish must breathe. The geography course recounts the travels of an imaginary Hamilton family, conveniently consisting of one child in each age group and Grandmother Hamilton, who provides learned commentary on places from Bogota to Baffin Island where Mr. Hamilton "has business...
...latest parlor game of those who like guppies, goldfish and other watch-through-a-glass-wall pets is watching the work of ants housed in specially constructed glass boxes. First photos of these novel parlor amusements are presented here by COLLEGIATE DIGEST...