Word: lago
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...Committee found cause to snarl because "a quasi-official endorsement of the publicity was offered by the assignment of the New York Academy of Medicine of its press liaison officer to report the operation for the Associated Press." That special reporter for the A. P. was tousle-headed Dr. lago Galdston (born Israel Goldstein), 41, executive secretary of the New York Academy's Medical Information Bureau and Press Relations Committee, who had, before the McHenry girl reached Fall River, assured New York editors that an operation for diaphragmatic hernia was a surgical commonplace and not worth reporting...
Castles & Teeth. IlDuce. who will open the Stresa Conference in the tall-terraced, fairylike palace on Lago Maggiore where Napoleon dallied for some months with Josephine, sternly warned his people to expect little from the Great Powers' conference. "You must," the Dictator told Italians, "build no castles of illusion...
Next day slumbering Stresa on the blossom-dotted rim of Lago Maggiore sprang to life. Excited Fascist workmen ripped up the main street from end to end. They had all but demolished the stuffy little station when an architect front Rome arrived, his mind full of modernism and marble. Snappily accoutred Fascist militiamen and plainclothes agents in all conceivable disguises arrived to put Stresa and its basking tourists under careful scrutiny. "Now that Hitler has defied the world, and Nazi agents are kidnapping and even murdering small fry abroad," said a Fascist corporal of militia grimly, "who knows what outrage...
...Othello a modern hero, lively, admirable and forlorn. Nan Sunderland's Desdemona was a graceful and impulsive lady, much more exciting than the demure Desdemonas who were in vogue when Central City last saw Othello. Kenneth MacKenna, whose brother. Scene Designer Jo Mielziner, was in the audience, made lago a villain of monstrous subtlety and venom. The Jones' sets, sparkling with Venetian color, were amazingly well handled throughout a one-intermission performance on a stage equipped only with a hand curtain. An audience of 750 which included Cinemagnate Jesse Lasky, Producer Max Gordon. Mr. & Mrs. Alan Campbell (Dorothy...
Actor Otis Skinnert mild-mannered son of a clergyman, talked with a reporter about the "joyous murderer Hajj" and other badmen he has portrayed on the stage. He sighed. "The only part that I have not played and wanted to play is lago in Othello. There is a delightfully villainous person." Then he said: "I might like to play Al Capone...