Word: jans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Masque of Kings (by Maxwell Anderson; Theatre Guild, producer). Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria-Hungary, a rakish young man with liberal tendencies, was found dead in the hunting lodge at Mayerling on Jan. 30, 1889. With him, also dead, lay the Baroness Mary Vetsera. He was 31, she 18. The scandal shook the Austro-Hungarian Empire to its foundations. And although Emperor Franz Joseph hushed up every detail of the tragedy so thoroughly that the motivation for the deaths remains mysterious to this day, the Mayerling affair has been pawed at by sensation mongers for two generations. In The Masque...
Meanwhile in. New York State, law enforcers were aroused over a young couple who had been illegally married since Jan. 15-Stanley Backus, 18, and Leona Roshia Backus, 12. Armed with a marriage license giving Leona's age as 18, and with their parents' approval, the couple had been married in Carthage by a Methodist named Rev. William K. Bradshaw who, like every one else concerned, was deceived by the bride's appearance. She weighs 112 lb., looks mature in grown-up frocks. Last week a medical examination showed her to be pregnant, and according...
...home town by Vice President Ted Dealey of the Dallas News and Journal. Here Publisher James Geddes Stahlman of the Nashville Banner, chairman of the Southern Newspaper Publishers' newsprint committee, told his fellows that the proposed mill could start shipping an annual 45,000 tons of paper Jan. 1, 1938. Assembled publishers from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas promptly raised $5,000,000 to build the mill, ordered its entire output. Present price of newsprint is $45 a ton. Southern publishers hope their slash pine mill, and others like it, can give them all the newsprint they want for around...
...musical Salzburg agog with a heaven-storming performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, a glorious Falstaff, an incomparable Die Meister singer (TIME, Aug. 24). Last December he went to Tel Aviv and, with all his oldtime brilliance, led the new Palestine Symphony through its first performance (TIME, Jan. 4). All of this encouraged U. S. music lovers to hope that the maestro was not lost to them forever...
...City Commissioner of Health, were forbidden by radio executives to mention syphilis in air talks. They lost their tempers, started a moral storm. The groundswell first surged effectively 13 months ago, when 2,500 women and men attended a meeting of the American Social Hygiene Association in Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 20. 1936). It frothed in July when Dr. Parran published an article on syphilis in Reader's Digest and Survey Graphic. Almost 2,000,000 reprints have been sold...