Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week this therapeutic outdoor literature received a notable addition in Ralph Connor's posthumous autobiography. Its 430 pages are about equally divided between bright accounts of the good times Ralph Connor enjoyed, and dull philosophizing about the spiritual value of his good times, both to himself and others. Born in 1860, the son of Scotch settlers in upper Quebec, a crusading preacher (his real name was Charles Gordon), Ralph Connor, became a novelist almost by accident. He wrote a story for a Canadian religious magazine, cut it up into three sections, kept adding chapters until it was long...
Widener Library steps will be the scene of the first of three outdoor evening concerts by the Harvard Glee Club tonight at 7 o'clock...
...them their share of attention and criticism. Last year 58 Manhattan sculptors organized a guild to do something about this, and last week they did it. On a vacant corner lot in midtown Manhattan, rented from the city for $5, they put on an outdoor exhibition of about 90 pieces of sculpture which during its first five days attracted 8,000 strollers at 10? a head...
...Windsor were flops, Coriolanus a middling success in its briefly scheduled Federal Theatre run. The Merry Wives, which was written to order in a fortnight because Queen Elizabeth wanted to see Falstaff in love, is creaking farce at best. Last week's production, out-Elizabethaning any college outdoor revels on record, was all hideous coyness, bumpkin antics, noddy-noddy-nubkins. A charging, bellowing Falstaff (Louis Lytton) carried on like a bull in ye olde antique shoppe, with the rest of the cast trying, all giggledy-piggledy, to be lewd, quaint, rollicking by turns...
...pounds of smelt annually. Softspoken, bespectacled William J. Duchaine, managing editor of the Escanaba Daily Press and the town's unofficial pressagent, sniffed a chance for the town to recoup its losses in local mining and lumbering declines. Having initiated Escanabans to profit-making outdoor fun with logrolling contests, deer hunters' powwows, he sold the town its first smelt jamboree in 1935. Scooping smelt from streams has never concerned him as much as scooping up tourists. Wryly he says: "It has not yet been determined whether smelt in the Great Lakes are a curse or a blessing...