Word: parrish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall be glad to know it. The late Willard Straight and his wife Dorothy Whitney Straight (now Mrs. Leonard Elmhurst) were the co-founders and provided the necessary financial backing-Mr. Lippmann was asked by Mr. Croly to be one of the editors. . . . LYDIA A. PARRISH...
...facts about Mask & Wig . . . owns its own clubhouse in heart of Philadelphia . . . decorations and murals by Maxfield Parrish . . . only college production to play two solid weeks in metropolitan (Philadelphia) theatre . . . renowned for its dancing, chorus & solo . . . 1930 production John Faust, Ph.D. acclaimed by New York critics as most remarkable piece of satire in years . . . donators to alma mater of unit of dormitories bearing its name...
Years ago he bought a large estate in Oyster Bay, L. I., hard by Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill. Here he designed and built an amazing house, "Laurelton Hall." which looks a little like a M axfield Parrish palace, a little like a factory, is magnificently kept up and contains a mosaic chapel, greenhouses, fountains, innumerable stained glass windows, rubber trees, orchids, and, frightening to children, a colossal bronze crab...
...rags!" Some undeclared embroidered pajamas were for Daughter Roberta who remained in Ireland to visit Grandma Semple and to "visit our 30 missions in Africa and India." Edward of Wales played cautious baccarat at Le Touquet for 10,000 francs a stake. His opponent was Mrs. James Cresson Parrish, Manhattan socialite. Soon she won 250,000 francs (about $10,000) from him, let him win it back. He beamed his delight...
...technicolor, as when Whiteman carries his whole band onto the stage in a satchel. Later the normal-size orchestra plays on top of a monster piano. There are sets that spring, completed, out of the floor, in time to notes of music. There are deep romantic backgrounds of Maxfield Parrish blue, ballets in the warmest, though slightly blurred, pastel tints yet achieved in technicolor. There are angled and overhead shots and hundreds of smart camera tricks. The whole is a musical show taking its continuity from a huge ledger called Paul Whiteman's Scrap Book. Charles Irwin, master...