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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Final guest conductor of the evening will be Leroy Anderson '29, well known here as former leader of the University Band. He will present the Dance of the Buffoons from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Snow Maiden," and Strauss's "Vienna Blood" Waltzes. Concluding the program is one of Anderson's own composition called Harvard Fantasy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

Franklin Roosevelt's new Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, made his maiden speech before the American Club of London. Said he of the U. S.: "As many of you know, I have been bearish for a year. I feel a little ashamed of it when I see what confidence Europeans have in my country's future." Said Bullish Joe Kennedy of Europe: "There will be no general European war for the rest of this year at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...movement is growing. The solitary maiden who answered requests five years ago now has fourteen assistants to help her handle Proven Pictures' four local theatres, the Tremont, the Newsreel, the Repertory, and the (Medford) Square. A couple of weeks ago they went down to Hartford to open their twentieth theatre; they say it's the most beautiful theatre in New England, but they may be biased. It is the first of the chain to bear the Name. They think this is a wonderful idea, and every new house they open is going to be called the Proven Pictures Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "PROVEN PICTURES" | 3/26/1938 | See Source »

Last year Stagehand finished his two-year-old season a maiden (a horse that has never won a race). But this winter, in the theatrical setting at Santa Anita, Stagehand blossomed into a star, won three races in a row. Racing fans all knew that the incomparable Earl Sande, most famed jockey of modern times, was Maxwell Howard's trainer. Because Earl Sande in his riding days had won 967 races (including three Kentucky Derbies and five Belmont Stakes), earned $3,000,000 for his employers, and had the reputation of being able to do more with a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stagehand | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Communist Party. Though most labor observers believe Bridges hews close to the Communist Party line, he denies being a party member. Dr. Copeland claims, however, that Mr. Bridges is in fact a member under the name of ''Harry Dorgan" (Dorgan was his mother's maiden name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Red Hunt | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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