Word: kans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is the life!' trilled buxom Marion Nevada Talley, onetime Metropolitan Opera soprano, as she plumped into the seat of a harvester combine and prepared to help bring in a wheat crop estimated at 200,000 bushels on her ranch at Colby, Kan...
Eight new singers have been engaged: Soprano Beatrice Belkin of Lawrence, Kan., member of "Roxy's Gang" (Manhattan cinema troupe), the St. Louis Municipal and the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Grand Opera Companies; Soprano Myrna Sharlow of Jamestown, N. Dak. and St. Louis, onetime member of the Chicago Opera Company; Polish Soprano Olga Didur, daughter of Basso Adamo Didur, also a Metropolitan singer; French Coloratura Lily Pons; French Tenor Georges Thill to replace Tenor Antonin Trantoul whose d�but last winter was undistinguished; Contralto Faina Petrova of the Moscow Grand Opera; Baritone Claudio Frigerio of Paterson, N. J., who has sung...
...Salina, Kan., Mrs. Bert Phelps prepared a Gore County chicken for cooking. Frugally, as well as to give Mr. Phelps a giblet he likes, she split the hen's gizzard, peeled out the musk. In the olive green debris were flecks of metallic yellow. A jeweler found them, gold, worth...
Procter & Gamble today operates seven factories: Ivorydale, Ohio; Dallas, Tex.; Macon, Ga.; Port Ivory, Staten Island, X. Y.; St. Louis, Mo.; Hamilton, Ontario; Kansas City, Kan. Largest factory is in Ivorydale, near Cincinnati; the new Baltimore plant, whose three-storied boilers can boil 9,000,000 Ib. of soap (300 carloads) at one time, is intended to guide ventures in the East and Southeast. Similar to this factory is a now-being-planned $5.000,000 plant at Long Beach, Calif...
...Class A orchestras?Lincoln, first (Lincoln won also last year at the contest held in Iowa City); Hammond, Ind., second; the John Adams High School of Cleveland, third; Class B orchestras? Dearborn, Mich., first, the Lew Wallace High School of Gary, Ind., second; Class C?Stanhope, Iowa, first; Partridge, Kan., second. Judges were Mr. Dasch, E. H. Wilcox of the University of Iowa, Carl Busch of Kansas City, Rudolph Ganz of Chicago, Will Earhart of Pittsburgh. They pricked their ears particularly at the playing of the Peru, Neb. orchestra which was conducted by a girl, Ruby Brown of Rockport...