Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia Society of Etchers had their annual exhibition in New York's Grand Central Galleries. The Chicago Society of Etchers held up their end with an exhibition in the Chicago Fine Arts Building. The American Print Makers Society showed their sixth annual crop of etchings, lithographs, woodcuts. For the tenth year, the Brooklyn Museum showed "Fine Prints of the Year," an international anthology of Continental. British and U. S. prints chosen each year by Critic Malcolm C. Salaman for the European section, for the last two years by Curator Susan A. Hutchinson for the U. S. In all these...
Once the present Republic of Finland was the Russian Grand Duchy of Finland and its beloved "National Shrine" was the high-spired, ancient Lutheran Church at Kolpana which is now in Russia. Spurred by Christmas a pack of zealous Godless comrades, protected by Red Soldiers, rushed upon Finland's Shrine. They called its slender pinnacle "dangerous to Soviet military aviation," ordered appropriate action...
...sang Laura in La Gioconda on the company's first Tuesday-night trip to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia Contralto Bampton had many friends to applaud her, to fill her dressing room with flowers. In Philadelphia she studied and often performed with the Curtis Institute of Music and the affiliated Philadelphia Grand Opera Company...
...play has set before the audience the intensely interesting elements that make up a dinner party at the home of Mrs. Oliver Jordan. "Just a small party. Lord and Lady Ferncliffe will be here, two dear friends of ours. Yes. Dinner at Eight." Built on a frame similar to Grand Hotel and staged by Sam Harris who has almost outdone Herman Schumlin in elaborate settings, the piece gets under way in the Park Avenue apartment of Mrs. Jordan, shifts to Oliver Jordan's downtown oillce, then to the home of the Packards, and back again to the Jordan...
...guests who are invited have unfortunate dealings with one another before the fatal night. An elaborate suicide by gas, the ruin of Jordan's fortune, the estrangement of Packard and his wife, the detection of an affair between Mrs. Packard and Dr. Talbot lead up to the grand anticlimax--the Forncliffes cannot attend the dinner in their honor...