Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disheartened young actor who had pounded Manhattan's pavements far oftener than he had trod its boards saw some kids swapping candy for marbles, and got an idea. Thereupon young Robert Porterfield, with fire in his eye, a dollar in his pocket and 21 famished actors in his wake, went back where he came from, to Abingdon in the Virginia mountains. There he opened a summer theatre, offering tickets for 35? in cash or the equivalent in barter...
Last week, its Abingdon season over, the Barter Theatre paid its third annual visit to Manhattan. In chain-store-fed Manhattan there were nine cash customers to one barterer. But the box office accepted a gallon of wine, tubes of toothpaste, some rayon underwear, size 36 and from Drama Critic John Anderson "a jugful of the milk of human kindness neatly skimmed." All these swelled a trifle the season's profits: $95, five barrels of jelly...
...Californian Charles S. Howard's Sorteado, four-year-old chestnut imported from South America last year: the 38th running of the Manhattan Handicap; outstripping seven of the best handicap horses in the U. S. and setting a new North American record (2 min., 28 2/5 sec.) for a mile and a half; in his debut on the Big Apple (New York tracks); at Belmont Park. Former record: 2:28 3/5 set by Handy Mandy at Latonia in 1927 and equaled by famed War Admiral at Belmont...
...busy man these days is Major Woodburn: besides his persuasive posters, his recruiting publicity bureau on Governor's Island, off Manhattan's southern tip, turns out recruiting sales talks for radio programs. These tweak a prospect's ear with You're in the Army Now and The Stars and Stripes Forever, catch him by the nose with slogans like "Join the Air Corps and earn while you learn." One record starts with a guitar-plunked Hawaiian melody that compellingly conjures up dreams of grass skirts and whispering palms, ends with sign-on-the-dotted-line insistence...
...John Sloan was a staff artist on the old Philadelphia Press. Newsphotos had not yet been developed, and artists covered fires, parades, elections like reporters rushed back to do their drawings from notes or memory. In 1905 Sloan moved to Manhattan, settled in Greenwich Village as a book and magazine illustrator, etched and painted between commissions. His background gave Artist Sloan a taste for catching people in their unbuttoned moments, taught him it was no shame to tell stories in his pictures...