Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week gossip-mongering Walter Winchell went off on a secret vacation. Like a symphony leader turning over his baton to a series of guest conductors, Columnist Winchell had arranged for a series of celebrities and near-celebrities to write for one day each his syndicated On Broadway. Each playing his own particular tune, the first half-dozen guest conductors sounded off as follows...
...name rarely appears on Metropolitan Opera programs. But she has sung in Manhattan's old opera house for 27 seasons. In Der Rosenkavalier she is a Viennese lady, handsome in bouffant black. In Lohengrin she is a bewigged wedding guest. In Mignon she gets a laugh, mincing along with a bird cage. In Carmen she wanders backstage selling papier-mache pumpkins. In L'Anima Allegro, she was a pipe-smoking gypsy crone (see cut). In Tannhauser few years ago she substituted for Maria Jeritza as the corpse of Elizabeth, because that strapping diva dreaded being carried down...
Meanwhile strong & healthy Benito Mussolini was having his go at Anthony Eden. The Dictator, no novice in the fine art of getting the jump on public opinion, caused announcements to be made while Captain Eden was his guest which provoked abroad such headlines as BRITISH AGREE TO LET Il DUCE RULE ETHIOPIA and REPORT PACT FOR PARTITION OF ETHIOPIA. Premier Mussolini had just raised his son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano from Undersecretary to Minister for Press Relations and the Count proceeded to make good last week. Not until Captain Eden emerged from Italy did the World Press tune change...
Last August I was a dinner guest of Mrs. McLean at a place somewhere in the Rois in Paris. On that evening Mrs. McLean wore the Hope Diamond as a pendant to a string of pearls. I not only looked at it but held it in my hand and examined it carefully. Since then I have neither lost my life, nor my mind, nor my appetite. On the contrary, I am quite O.K., and my luck has steadily improved. I don't know how to explain that, except maybe the evil influence was off duty on that particular evening...
...Church church in London inspired Poet William Blake to write his "Songs of Innocence." In formal or spiritual fellowship Swedenborgians also claim Goethe, Wagner, Berlioz, Balzac, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Emerson, Thoreau, Victor Hugo, Henry James, Andrew Carnegie, Maeterlinck, Yeats, Helen Keller, Elbert Hubbard, Amelita Galli-Curci and Eddie Guest...