Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a brilliant career which included the tracking down of Mata Hari Sir Basil retired, a Knight Commander of the Bath, in 1921. In 1925 he was the object of a cause célèbre of his own when lie was arrested in Hyde Park with one Thelma de Lava on charges of indecency, public impropriety and attempting to bribe a policeman. Knowing that Sir Basil was not only a distinguished sleuth but the son of a late Archbishop of York, the British Penny Press gloated. Sir Basil claimed a frame-up. He was fined ?5 and costs...
...some $50,000, made over $400,000 that the Philharmonic has collected since Harry Harkness Flagler, president of the Society, announced that the Orchestra was in peril of its life (TIME, Feb. 5). The S O S (Save Our Symphony) Campaign was launched in Mr. Flagler's Park Avenue home. There he informed 70 likely givers that $500,000 would have to be raised to assure the Orchestra's existence for the next three seasons. Mr. Flagler's guests knew the Philharmonic's proud reputation, knew that it had never before begged publicly for money...
Gentlewoman (by John Howard Lawson; Group Theatre, producer). The heroine (Stella Adler) of this play is a soft Park Avenue widow who announces, with unjustified assurance: "My head is full of epigrams and my heart is full of tears." The hero (Lloyd Nolan), a communistic Casanova, replies, "You are smeared with perfume and emotion." As might be anticipated, their alliance is not lasting. At the end of the play he is headed for Iowa City, plotting to become a nuisance to the government. She, unmarried still, is planning an accouchement. She hopes her child will forget the informality...
...meningitis, influenza. Of late years she has been studying the streptococci which cause scarlet fever, erysipelas, puerperal (childbed) fever, septic sore throat. Last week she did not want to stop. New York physicians agreed that her work should not be interrupted. Dr. Williams' famed chief, Dr. Williams Hallock Park, who resisted a retirement move when he reached 70 last December, did not see how he could spare her. Said he: "We have very good bacteriologists in the department, but they haven't the breadth of view of a director...
...Manhattan, the president of the Fifth Avenue Association, the Commissioner of Health, and the First Deputy Police Commissioner met with the Outdoor Cleanliness Association in the swank Park Avenue apartment of Mrs. Arthur B. Claflin. Straight from his beat to address them they summoned Mark O'Connell, street cleaner...