Word: midnights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frank Gillmore, president of Associated Actors & Artistes of America, proposed that all Broadway shows begin one evening performance each week at 6:30. His reason: to lure suburbanites, "who object to getting home after midnight...
Poland, in which there is latent antiSemitism, and anti-Jewish Germany last week had a "misunderstanding." It occurred over a Polish passport law, effective midnight October 29, requiring Polish citizens abroad to revalidate their passports or lose their citizenship. Germany, fearful that many of her estimated 55,000 Polish Jews would thus become virtual "citizens" of Germany, seized on the law as a pretext to get rid of them...
Eleven men and a girl are slated to aid the Deacons in making merry after the Chicago tilt this Saturday. Nye Mayhew will play from 9 until the State curfew rings at midnight, and there is a possibility that the decorations will be maroon. A feature of the dance will be the Kirkland House buffet, which gained considerable renown last year. The dance, which will be informal, is being managed by Thomas S. Galdwin '39, chairman of the Kirkland House Entertainment Committee, and William C. Hurtt '40 will act as head usher...
...largest U.S. refineries (Standard's). One day last week a Cities Service tank of ethyl gasoline blew up with force enough to toss its top 150 yards. A flaming geyser of 1,680,000 gallons of gasoline in a few minutes was splattering a dozen other tanks. By midnight 18 tanks had collapsed into a scarlet pool of blazing oil. Watchers got scorched cheeks a mile away. Men who fought the blaze with foamite wondered whether the whole tank metropolis would go. But the wind was merciful. By next noon the last flicker was out. Total damage...
Meanwhile, Hellzapoppin was up to new tricks. It: 1) scheduled midnight performances; 2) offered cut-rate balcony seats; 3) provided free seats to those who could collar chickens and pigs it let loose in Times Square. Thanks to pigs and Winchell, Hellzapoppin turned into...