Word: orpheus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Typical Salop issues: At $1.89, a $5 book on American birds, a $3.50 book on insects; at $1.48, a $5 volume on American glass. From Publisher Horace Liveright he once bought a book called Orpheus, a scholarly study of religion by French Archeologist Salomon Reinach. Reduced to $1.49 from its original price of $5, it sold around 35,000 copies...
...Chicago last week Drs. Francis Wood Godwin and Alfred Orpheus Walker showed pictures of a .22 calibre bullet in flight taken at speeds of about one-millionth of a second, fastest exposure ever accomplished. These photographs revealed the bullet "stopped" in its course, a clear-cut image with highlights gleaming on its surface; stopped again so close to a pane that its reflection could be dimly seen in the glass; passing through and emerging in a cloud of glass dust...
...productions (all revivals): Orpheus and Eurydice, Falstaff, Louise, Boris Godounoff, Thais, Fidelia...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1:55 p. m. NBC-Red) opens its eighth successive radio season with its revival of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Contralto Kerstin Thorborg, Soprano Irene Jessner in the title roles...
...famed Orpheus fountain in Stockholm was finished in 1936 by Carl Emil Andersson Milles, Sweden's greatest living sculptor. In 1931, in his third year as resident sculptor at Detroit's suburban Cranbrook Academy, Sculptor Milles met Alderman Aloe's widow in St. Louis and learned her desire for a group of fountains in Aloe Plaza. In 1936 Mrs. Aloe put up $12,500, the city of St. Louis put up $47,500, and Sculptor Milles was commissioned to do for St. Louis what he had done for Stockholm...