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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author of the current show, successor to the 1936 "Fifty Grand", is Frank M. Bosworth 2L., Alexander MacW. Clark '38, Pi Eta president, and Henry W. Russell '37 will assist Flood in management and general supervision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PI ETA EXTRAVAGANZA GOING TO REHEARSALS | 2/24/1937 | See Source »

...Catherine Littlefield was born there 32 years ago. She began to study in her mother's dancing studio when she was 3. At 16, she got a job in Ziegfeld's Sally, later studied in Paris, went back to Philadelphia to head the ballet of the Philadelphia Grand Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sleeping Beauty | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Bills for the Philadelphia Ballet are paid by Catherine's rich husband Philip Leidy. General opinion was that the Sleeping Beauty cost him $10,000. Mr. Leidy, who loves ballet as much as the law he practices, first met Catherine Littlefield when she was dancing for the Philadelphia Grand Opera which his mother supported. Nobody knows how much their European tour will cost next summer. Miss Littlefield will take her troupe to Paris, Brussels, The Hague and London. She boasts that hers is the first U. S. ballet to venture into Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sleeping Beauty | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...Neill play the wise and sunny character of the small-town father was allowed to grow naturally out of the story. In Fulton of Oak Falls it seems necessary for other members of the cast to butter him incessantly with such adjectives as "good," "gentle," "saintly," "grand" and "steady." He tells his next-door neighbor, a clergyman, that he was in love when he was young, that the girl went to Heaven, that although he has carried on as a good citizen, churchgoer and family man, his memories are what he cherishes most. "I never understood you until now," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...Grand Champion Spicypiece was imported from England only two months ago. and before he entered the final judging Torohill Smoky had been awarded the James Mortimer Trophy as best U. S.-bred dog in the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Finest Dogs | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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