Word: likes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promoters of world's fairs like to describe their shows as exhibitions of culture. For that reason Grover Whalen long insisted that New York's World of Tomorrow would have no displays of nudity, a rule not too closely observed. San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition felt the same way. It allowed Sally Rand to establish a "Dnude Ranch" on Treasure Island, but boasted in advance that its Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts would draw more paying customers...
...Golden Gate Exposition was not set up like New York's World of Tomorrow. The New York Fair burdened itself with $26,995,000 worth of bonds which were supposedly to be paid off, and although it has operating profits of $4,105,000, it has still some $30,000,000 of bonds and debts...
Grey-bobbed Nazimova took to the microphone like a trouper reclaimed for a Billy Rose floor show, emoted copiously in black slacks in an audience-less studio, wasted wordily away at the finish like a traditional Camille. Mightily pleased with the play, the playwright and a medium which let her hold most of the stage for a full hour without a single program or gum wrapper crackling, Alia Nazimova let out a secret. "Always," she confessed, "I have hated audiences. Always...
...Indian") (Columbia Broadcasting Symphony, Howard Barlow conducting; Columbia: 8 sides). Though he died in 1908, frail, mad, Manhattan-born Edward Alexander MacDowell still holds his title as No. 1 U. S. composer. His poetic "Indian Suite," regarded by some as his masterpiece, avoids tom-tomfoolery, sounds strangely like Sibelius. Brilliantly performed and recorded...
...from a flop is Esquire. With a circulation of even 350,000 it could be a financial success. Its stories are no longer hand-me-downs and its cartoons are often funny to anybody. Publishers like it because it has made the men's clothing industry advertising-conscious. Women like it because it has changed the clothing habits of the American male. Men's clothing advertisers like it because it is the U. S. male Vogue. Men like it because it is still the best smoking-room magazine in the land...