Word: ida
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your interesting article a few weeks ago about Oils and Opera referring to the opera A'ida that was produced in Tulsa, the most interesting part was left out. Mr. Carlo Edwards, it is true, directed the Opera A'ida, but the first opera produced by the Tulsa Civic Opera was La Boheme, directed by an Indian woman. This woman, a Chickasaw, Daisy Maud Underwood, is a real Indian princess, her name being Princess Pakanli. She, with the aid of Hugh Sandidge, ,veteran operatic tenor of Memphis, Tenn., worked for two years under the most adverse conditions...
Next year he got a press job with the Democratic National Committee. There he met potent men. Also he saw that Business, which was currently quivering from the muckrake scars inflicted by Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair et al., was badly in need of having its public relations patched. To Ivy Lee it was simple. Let the big corporations "take the public into their confidence." Let them tell their story "candidly and fully" and the newspapers would print...
James Minotto, Arizona-ranching son-in-law, had played once prior to the tournament-the day before. He & Wife Ida May were allowed a handicap of 75. Their gross, combined nine-hole score: 161. But high net (for which there was no prize) went to Mr.& Mrs. Gordon Phelps Kelley (granddaughter) who posted a 91 after a handicap of 41. Low net went to Mr. & Mrs. Huntington Badger Henry (daughter) with a 77 after a handicap...
Very few of Fiske's pale paraphrases of barroom jokes, his irrelevant elaborations of smoking-room mythology, are as frankly dramatic as "Mr. Jones's Night Off." Most famed is the ballad of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon"-a wretchedly voluptuous fish who said to herself: "There must be more to this sex-life than just swimming over each other's eggs." She put a badge on her right shoulder saying "I will share," paid a visit to Fanny Bored, the world's oldest mermaid, finally had an uncomfortable liaison on a barnacle bed, with an octopus...
...Chatham Press. Drawings by Scott Wilson. Price $3.50 with a phonograph record on which Mr. Fiske plays the piano and recites the adventures of "Ida, The Wayward Sturgeon...