Word: martha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martha Raye in blackface, outshouting dark Trumpeter Louis Armstrong in a loud and elaborate Harlem production number called Public Melody...
Operated by a subsidiary of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., the Fall River Line had been losing money ever since 1931. The Providence Line and the New Bedford Line were abandoned earlier this year. The railroad was continuing only its Fall River and New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Lines, and had planned to let Fall River give up the ghost after this summer. When the National Maritime Union, C. I. O. affiliate, started a series of crippling strikes, the company replied with an order to halt operations. Technically the order was one of "temporary suspension...
...constituents at home. Later Sol bent all his talents for several years to directing George Washington's Bicentennial celebration, and succeeded so well in indoctrinating the U. S. with patriotism that his wife Evelyn spent a whole summer with him in sweltering Washington because, as she explained: "If Martha Washington could stick it out here with General Washington, I could stick it out here with...
...Atlantic City, N. J., the Steel Pier Opera Company last week began its tenth season with an English production of Il Trovatore. Henri Elkan again conducted. Other operas listed: Verdi's Rigoletto, von Flotow's Martha, Debussy's L'Enfant prodigue, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana...
Married. Dwight Whitney Morrow Jr., brother of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Constance Morrow Morgan (see above), Yale Law School student; to Margot Loines of Manhattan; at Martha's Vineyard, Mass...