Word: olympias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than O'Neill, more solid than Barry, Sidney Howard is a better theatrical craftsman than either. He shares with Shakespeare and most mediocre dramatists a willingness to take his material where he finds it. Many of his plays, mostly failures, have been translated adaptations (S. S. Tenacity, Casanova, Olympia). He wrote in collaboration with Edward Sheldon (Bewitched} and Charles MacArthur (Salvation}. Like Yellow Jack, Dodsworth, which opened last fortnight with equally enthusiastic reviews and made Sidney Howard the most successful dramatist of the season, was an adaptation. At work last week on a novel about his father...
...Last week old friends went to see the residue of the Dewey glory sold. Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, who was swindled out of $106,000 in an effort to find the Lindbergh baby, bought the walnut armchair that was the hero's deck chair on his flagship the Olympia for $11. A moosehorn liquor set that her estranged husband had given the admiral she got for $30. The four red lacquer tea tables, gift of the Emperor of Japan, went to Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter for $16. Speaker Champ Clark's daughter-in-law got an oval...
...MacDonald Smith, who takes fewer divots and wins fewer tournaments than any other equally able golfer in the U. S.: the Western Open Golf Championship; with 282, to Tommy Armour's 288; at Olympia Fields, Chicago. On the second day of the tournament, detectives discovered that Chicago's Public Enemy No. 4, "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn, was playing in it under his real name of Vincent Gebardi. They arrested him for vagrancy at the eighth tee, where his score was one under par, accompanied him for the remaining holes. Disturbed, Golfer McGurn took...
...Olympia. Wash., Governor Clarence D. Martin last fortnight signed a bill legalizing pari-mutuel betting on horse races, which has been forbidden in Washington since...
...County Commissioners' auditorium, crammed to the doors, spokesmen argued themselves hoarse for more cash and food relief, free light and water, 5,000 gal. of gasoline for a motor march on the State Capitol at Olympia. Just as hoarsely the Commissioners argued the impossibility of granting their demands...