Word: hay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hara and Rhett Butler has stirred controversy in U.S. bars, drawing rooms and dinner tables. Actually tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara were such various charmers as Tallulah Bankhead, Paulette Goddard, a typist named Margaret Tallichet, a manicurist named Arleen Whelan and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, wife of Mr. Selznick's backer. Mentioned for it were so many other actresses, obscure or celebrated, that Variety cracked that, if all of them attended the premiere, the picture would pay expenses in one performance. Playwright Clare Booth wrote a comedy (Kiss the Boys Goodbye) on the subject, scheduled...
Eugene S. Austin, 17, of Mt. Pleasant; Hay Long High School...
...Mexico Owen St. Clair O'Malley was sent packing with two calculated slaps-in-the-face from the Government of President Cárdenas: 1) He was reminded by the Mexican Foreign Office that the United Kingdom has welshed on her War Debt. Wrote Foreign Minister General Eduardo Hay: "The government of Your Excellency lacks all right to analyze the domestic situation of Mexico. . . . Even powerful states having at their command abundant resources cannot pride themselves on being up to date in the payment of all their monetary obligations." 2) He was handed a check...
Among the private collections drawn upon, notable were those of : Mrs. Rockefeller, whose U. S. primitives supplied such beauties as Edward Hicks's Residence of David Twining; Sportsman John Hay Whitney, who lent Whistler's Wapping on Thames; Financier Stephen C. Clark, who lent Homer's Croquet; Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss; Financier Sam A. Lewisohn; Marshall Field; Edsel B. Ford; Manhattan Architect Philip L. Goodwin; Mrs. Stanley Resor of Manhattan and Robert Hudson Tannahill of Detroit. All except Mrs. Bliss and Mr. Tannahill are trustees of the Museum of Modern Art; but Mr. Bliss is a trustee...
...theatres, experimental theatres, repertory theatres are like frail children. They get the most devoted care, but seldom get any exercise, grow any muscle, gain any weight. In the quarter-century before 1937, Manhattan saw only four such theatres survive adolescence: the Theatre Guild, the Provincetown Hay-house, the Civic Repertory Theatre (thanks to Director Eva Le Gallienne), the Group Theatre (thanks chiefly to Playwright Clifford Odets...