Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drove for long hours. At 4 a.m. he walked wearily into the Albion Hotel at Asbury Park, and asked for a room. He registered as Fred Ellis...
...lady behind the welcoming program was an ex-school teacher named Georgia B. Howe, who remembers what it is like to be lonely on a new job. Miss Howe had arranged everything-apartments, luncheons of crab Louis and boysenberry pie, a picnic in the park, a tea at the Art Museum. The Portland Symphony gave a special concert; the Civic Theater arranged a concert-drama evening; the city put on a garden party. There was also a day-long trip up Mount Hood. Local clubs had donated the buses, neighboring towns were waiting with ice cream and coffee, restaurants gave...
...Five Minutes More.) They earn $150,000 a year. Jule, who was born in London 42 years ago, was a piano prodigy who was guest soloist with the Detroit Symphony at eight. Sammy, 35, was brought up on the sidewalks of New York, set a hooky record at Seward Park High School"which still stands." He was already a successful lyricist at 28 (Shoe Shine Boy, Bei Mir Bist Du Schon) when he and Jule teamed up in Hollywood...
Seven nights a week the huge lights in St. Louis' Forest Park flash on, flooding the park with a blinding glare-the signal to the audience that the show is over. One night next week when the lights blaze, about 12,000 Municipal Opera fans will rise to 'their feet and roar out Auld Lang Syne with the cast, as they have regularly at the close of St. Louis' summer operetta seasons since...
...final show, the audiences saw Up in Central Park, with several members of its Broadway cast. The big favorites, however, are such sentimental standbys as The Great Waltz, Show Boat and Babes in Toyland. The directors usually bypass Broadway hits like One Touch of Venus or Bloomer Girl, considering them too gamy for the family trade...