Word: papas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappear with her husband's money or fame. For 37 years she never wavered once in her loyalty and love. Only a year ago Jim Jeffries remarked, "If I even turn over in bed at night, she wakes up and asks, 'What's the matter, Papa?' I don't know what I'd do if something happened to her." Well, on Feb. 4, 1941, the "something" happened. Frieda Jeffries was killed by a car as she stepped from the curb in front of their Burbank home. Jeff collapsed, and had to be taken...
Meyer Hiler, about 75, is proud of his son Hilaire. So is all San Francisco. Hilaire Hiler's murals in Aquatic Park are now one of the sights of the town. Papa Hiler has a quiet reputation of his own, as a theatrical agent. A hobby-rider, he also likes to paint pictures-brightly colored, engagingly irresponsible pictures of beach scenes, toylike Venetian canals, imaginary Oriental landscapes, houses like patchwork quilts. Last week Sutter Street's Raymond & Raymond Gallery was exhibiting some of Papa Hiler's paintings. The critics were pleasantly taken aback. Said the San Francisco...
Anxious not to capitalize on his son's reputation, Papa Hiler treated his late entrance into the art world with good-natured deprecation. Said he: "There is no message in my pictures. . . . No one ever taught me anything about painting. I never had any intention of becoming an artist." But Son Hilaire was bursting with filial pride. "I know enough about painting," said he, "to know he doesn't know a damn thing about it. If I gave him a single lesson he would be terrible. He's one of the few real primitives. I know...
Last week the Chicago Business Men's Orchestra temporarily had a new conductor: old "Papa" Frederick Stock of the Chicago Symphony...
...four rehearsals, Papa Stock put the businessmen through many a bad moment. He told the basses: "You sound like a bunch of old ladies." He bawled out Dr.J. Peerman Nesselrod for offside piccolo peeps. Thanks to Dr. Stock's business like drilling, in the orchestra's 20th-birthday concert the businessmen tackled Dvorak's New World Symphony and a sheaf of shorter pieces (including a Symphonic Waltz by Papa Stock) with a precision which other amateur groups could well envy...