Word: peakedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout Depression the proudest of U. S. opera companies was the San Francisco organization which, though its seasons were brief, imported expensive singers, moved into a handsome new municipal auditorium and never gasped for money. Last autumn the San Francisco Opera peaked its artistic career by presenting Wagner's...
The important things to note about John Golden's presentation of William Gillette in "Three Wise Fools" are relatively few and divertingly simple. The primary fact, of course, is that the very eminent Mr. Gillette again treads the boards with vigor and histrionic skill which have for so long made...
I WENT TO PIT COLLEGE-Lauren Gilfillan-Viking ($2.50). Diminutive Lauren Gilfillan graduated from Smith College in 1931 and, like many of her generation, could find no job. So she decided to go to a Pennsylvania mining town, write a book about it. The result of her adventures is an...
Judge Callahan's announced intention was to "debunk" the Scottsboro case. At the first two trials there had been noise and bustle, the clicking of typewriters, he glare of camera flashlights. Last week Judge Callahan excluded all photographers. All was quiet as a squat, hard-faced blonde in a...
... I have a sample copy of a magazine dated Aug. 3, 1889, which was published by the rime Publishing Company, 237 Broadway, New York. The outside front cover has a cupid with wings, peaked hat, sandals and bludgeon. The youngster holds a large scythe which is attached or else about...