Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only last year did Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth nose Edward Noyes Westcott's David Harum out of second place...
Bland, competent Jewish Jack Pearl (German-American comic), works hard for laughs,leads around a small,bewildered dachshund, tumbles about the stage with Lyda Roberti. Like Funnyman Ed Wynn, Mr. Pearl will close his show one night a week for radio broadcasting. Meritorious are Carl Randall and Barbara Newberry who, while dancing in an easy, effortless manner, delight everybody by doing tricks with thimbles. Best tunes: "My Cousin in Milwaukee"; "Where...
...nation's utility tycoons to a dinner at Manhattan's Metropolitan Club. Out of the repentant ashes of the N. E. L. A., founded at Chicago's Grand Pacific Hotel three years after Thomas Alva Edison opened his first central power station in Manhattan's Pearl Street, was formed the most autocratic trade association so far set up in the U. S. Name: Edison Electric Institute, "a permanent tribute to Thomas A. Edison . . . to foster the Edison tradition...
...Metropolitan curtain went up last week and an off-stage chorus started shouting "He mus' die." Brasses blared savagely against a rattle of percussives. The first short scene made Metropolitan listeners fear that another opera was about to be given in English which they could not understand. Soprano Pearl Besuner, made up as a haggish black woman, was almost unintelligible as she informed Smithers, Jones's cockney factotum, that the natives had rebelled, gathered on a distant hill to hatch Jones's death. Tenor Marek Windheim's cockney accent only added to the confusion. But then...
...boots and fanned his toes. His stomach was empty. He hunted vainly for food which he had hidden under a white stone against just such a time? Dwarfish forms like tree-stumps started moving towards him, ha'nts which frightened him so that he drew his pearl-handled revolver, fired at them...