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...CHIFFON SCARF-Mignon G. Eberharf - Doubleday, Doran ($2). Double death comes to a St. Louis family when they attempt to sell the plans for a new airplane engine. Serialized in Ladies Home Journal, this brightly finished tale is unusual for the skill with which its suspense is steered through a heavy swell of romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Mysteries | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...March MilitaireSchubert *Overture to "Mignon" Thomas *"Molly on the Shore" Grainger *"Cavalleria Rusticana," Fantasia Mascagni Austrian Peasant Dances Schonherr Wedding March "Schuhplattler" Hog Dance Zwoaschritt *Second Norwegian Dance Grieg *Halian Capriccio Tschaikovsky "The Incredible Flutist" Piston (Dance Play by Hans Wiener) Hans Wiener and his Dancers with Orchestra *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

That rumor last week led a reporter to seek out Janizary Corcoran. Found in Washington's Powhatan Hotel restaurant devouring a filet mignon, Tommy the Cork said he had not seen Mayor LaGuardia in six months. "Must be somebody else," said he between bites. "I hear there's another Tom Corcoran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Corks | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...morning, he first of all reads his daily newspaper from cover to cover. After breakfasting on a roll and tea at 10:30, he retires to practice until 2:15, when lunch is served. His afternoons are spent walking about the grounds, smoking a few specially-made Mignon brand Egyptian cigarets, which he imports from a Manhattan tobacconist, and reading books on history, philosophy and politics. From 5 to 8:30 he plays the piano, then dines and spends the evening in the nightly ritual of a bridge game. At 10:30 he shuffles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Veteran | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Last week, in the title role of Ambroise Thomas' archaic Mignon, pretty, dark-haired Rise Stevens showed herself to be much more than a run-of-the-mill operatic debutante, sang with mature taste and acted her part with full-blown operatic temperament. For her, even the morosest critic prophesied an expansive future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Debs | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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