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At Manhattan's Center Theatre, Virginia, the Rockefeller extravaganza, was grossing $27,000 in true Rockefeller fashion, as it has been for three weeks. But to Broadway the Center is in a class with the old Hippodrome, so the distinction of opening the 1937-38 theatrical season was reserved...
The U. S. merchant marine can be defined as 3,475 ships weighing 12,474,693 tons and comprising about a tenth of the world's vessels. It can be defined better as 957 ships, for only that many actually engage in foreign competition. By the most significant definition...
Ballet had suddenly become a rage not only in Manhattan but in 100 other U. S. cities visited by the Monte Carlo dancers since last October. The fever began in earnest last season when the company toured 20,000 miles, surprised everyone by grossing $1,000,000. This season more...
From 1891 to the World War, football passed through a series of struggles for its very existence. Grossing exaggerated charges of injuries incurred on two occasions threatened the game's demise, but Walter Camp, of Yale, on one occasion, and Dr. Dexter of Illinois, on the other, brought forward such...
The chief philosopher and greatest teacher of representational U. S. art is Iowa's chubby, soft-spoken Grant Wood? Like Benton, Grant Wood studied in France, turned out his share of Blue Vase, Sorrento, House in Montmartre, Breton Market. But in 1929 he radically changed his style. From his palette...