Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World-Telegram interviewer Sally Rand explained that the makeup she uses on her body makes her itch. Said she: "Doesn't it feel good to scratch?" Her description of her dance: "It is just my interpretation of a white bird flying in the moonlight at dusk.'' Her tribute to Henry Sittenberg, who makes her fans: "Henry has been in the business for 40 years and since I began my dance at the World's Fair last summer his business has picked up 100%. He estimates that I have 1,000 competitors. ... He makes the best fans...
...spent seven years in the Fogg, nosing at extravagant Grecos in the Cambridge moonlight. An enviable nobility is the result. Two photographs in the metropolitan papers show...
From Paradise Cove, scene of many a moonlight picnic on the Marin County shore of San Francisco Bay, six big navy seaplanes taxied out with a mighty roar one noon last week. With their 30 officers & crew they comprised Patrol Squadron 10-F, bound for Honolulu's Pearl Harbor. Except for excited San Franciscans who lined the city's hills to watch the takeoff, there was little commotion over what was to be the longest formation flight ever attempted-2,400 mi. The Navy did not think of it as a remarkable flight but a routine transfer...
...Falls, Minn, and Fort Frances, Ontario are now situated. . . . It was midwinter and a blanket of snow three feet deep made travel difficult. There were no roads. Accompanied by my head timber cruiser we covered the distance on foot and finally arrived at the Hudson Trading Post, one beautiful moonlight night after midnight with the thermometer at -40°. I viewed the wonderful water falls there and decided to become a real pioneer. The outcome was the building of 200 miles of railroad ... the development of water power and paper mills on both sides of the river, the purchase...
...real careers of the actors involved, like Going Hollywood (see col. 1); 3) semi-sophisticated romances like Flying Down to Rio. For Flying Down to Rio, Vincent Youmans was hired to write the music for four songs: "Flying Down to Rio." "Music Makes Me," "Orchids in the Moonlight," "Carioca." Fred Astaire was hired to dance as frequently as possible. A fleet of airplanes was engaged for a finale with showgirls in gauze uniforms capering on their wings. To play the lead in Flying Down to Rio, RKO wisely persuaded handsome Dolores Del Rio to come out of a year...