Word: harps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harp plinks of "Just a Song at Twilight," 40 loyal crusaders trooped into a festive Manhattan dining room, burst out: "Happy birthday, dear doctor, happy birthday to you." Beaming across his dinner table on his 80th birthday was silvery, bright-eyed Dr. Charles Giffen Pease, founder-president of the Non-Smokers' Protective League. Bristling enemy of coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolates, meats, drugs, medicines and vaccination. All through the vegetarian banquet which followed, the 40 guests talked of Dr. Pease's successful campaign in 1909 to have smoking banned in New York City subways. No one had forgotten his subsequent practice...
...gossip writers pigeonholed information to use in case the tests turned out as well as Warner Brothers hoped: Josephine Hutchinson, 25, is divorced from a grandson of Inventor Graham Bell. She weighs 103, lives in Manhattan, likes riding, won a scholarship in an acting school at 16, plays the harp. Her next cinema jobs will be in Max Reinhardt's Midsummer Night's Dream and The Right to Live, with George Brent. The picture selected for Josephine Hutchinson's début is a pleasant little comedy with incidental music. It supplies no opportunity to evaluate Warner...
...years as a member of the Naval Affairs Committee, Representative James V. McClintic, senior member of the Oklahoma Delegation, used to harp on the shortcomings of the U. S. fleet. Land-locked Oklahoma tired of his harpings long before he was transferred to the Ways & Means Committee. Last week he was defeated for renomination by a Cordell lawyer named Sam Massingale...
...setting, supposed to be the Elysian Fields, looks like an old-fashioned cut-out valentine with harp strings on one side and a foot bridge across the middle. There Helen and Achilles sit and sing love duets. An old fisherman comes by. convinces Helen that no love can last forever. She sends Achilles back to the other ghosts, stretches herself out to die. A younger fisherman appears. After he dances vigorously for her, the incurable Helen decides to try again...
...doesn't cost anything to put it on") ushered the guests to the spindling gold chairs, set 20 rows deep. On the platform was the famed gold piano. Mrs. Roosevelt introduced the musicians who had played for her in Albany. They were the Morgan Sisters, a harp-violin-piano combination, who came out dressed in crinoline to play a 50-minute program which included "Traumerei" and the "Blue Danube." In all the show, few persons noticed a square-set ruddy-cheeked old gentleman who twice during the concert slipped in at the back and looked pleased to see that...