Word: patronizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago, heirs of the McFarlane brothers, who built the Opera House, presented it to Denver University. Ann Evans, Denver's Art patron, organized a scheme to make annual revivals there a reminder of the city's rowdy past. The revivals started two years ago when Lillian Gish played Camille. Last summer an audience in 1890 costume watched The Merry Widow. For last week's performance Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones selected Othello, persuaded Walter Huston to take a six-week vacation from Dodsworth in Manhattan to appear as the Moor with Nan Sunderland (Mrs. Huston...
...Tugwell. Although only six Democrats voted against confirmation, there was many another who at heart distrusted the dapper young professor's theories and would have cast a contrary vote if it would not have been construed as a vote of no-confidence in Dr. Tugwell's patron, Franklin D. Roosevelt. But Senatorial motives mattered little to Rexford Guy Tugwell. In his office after the confirmation, he beamingly received congratulations and that night one of his friends, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, gave a party to celebrate the victory. Then the handsome, happy professor entrained for the West, to attend...
...damages that do not exist. This lady of apparent refinement and culture was faced with the necessity of making a choice. Were the injuries real? If they were, she belongs in this court. If on the other hand they were not real, according to the teachings of this departed patron saint of Christian Science, then, of course, she has no place here...
...very long chain of luck that gave $150,000 to a Bronx, N. Y. restaurant chef named William Meringer. He had a wonderful recipe for hasenpfeffer. An anonymous patron had a ticket in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes on Golden Miller. The patron went to the restaurant, ordered hasenpfeffer, ate three plates of it, called in Chef Meringer and gave him his ticket. Golden Miller won the Grand National (TIME, April...
...mistress (Alice Faye) contest for his affections are standard cinema fictions. Nonetheless, Spencer Tracy's smooth, poker-faced performance and Edwin Burke's colorful direction give Now I'll Tell by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein more authority than most such melodramas. Good shot: Golden, to conciliate a patron who has lost $40,000 in his gambling rooms, flipping a penny for double or quits...