Word: owne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beautifully costumed, cleverly staged, its acts varied from acrobatics to ballet, from comic capers to spinning solos. It had no glittering star like Hollywood's Sonja Henie. But skating fans last week were ready to adopt new ice gods: Wisconsin's piquant Bess Ehrhardt and dashing Roy Shipstad...
Author of these plays, written for radio and church performance, and acted last week on the platform in a church in Boulder, Colo., was a masterful, mannish-voiced gynotheocrat, Bishop Alma White, 77. Once a Methodist, wife of a preacher, Mrs. White read herself out of her church because it...
George Bernard Shaw has a cousin, a retired Australian bank manager named Charles M. Shaw. For years Charles's gorge rose at the silly lies told about "Bernard," while he practically choked at the slanders circulated-often by Bernard himself-about the Shaw clan. The Shaws, after all, he...
...Washington, might just possibly have gone to the White House if he had not been shot in his own skyscraper capitol in 1935. Huey never had much use for a free press. He reserved State advertising, State printing for papers that backed his cause-including Louisiana Progress, which he owned himself. Once he tried to tax every daily in Louisiana out of existence, but the U. S. Supreme Court held his act unconstitutional...
Year later Rachmaninoff gave up opera conducting, spent his leisure time writing more symphonies and piano concertos. In 1909 he began touring the U. S. as a pianist. Only two or three times, during his first few years in the U. S., did he take up the baton again, and...