Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Tillyer Trego, who made The Isle of Paradise, first saw Bali when he was working in Cunard Line's advertising department, preparing advertisements for world" cruises. He went back with a camera, found it easy to bribe natives with rings, shirts, hardware, to perform. One mishap occurred: 15 Balinese, tipsy on mild wine and carrying a cremation tower, ran over him and his camera. His picture, the leisurely record of a six-month visit, is beautifully photographed and has the warm, informal authenticity that most travelogs lack. Good shot: a Balinese youth (Trego's valet, who refused...
...Bustled women and men in ancient beavers crowded the narrow street in front of Central City's opera house, watched Frederic McFarlane present the keys of the house to Chancellor Frederick Maurice Hunter of the University of Denver. Then they all filed inside to see woebegone Actress Lillian Gish perform in the sad, sad story of Camille...
...afternoon matadors killed the six fine bulls of Don Ernesto Blanco for the glory of Spain's national sport. The next three days the encierro was repeated with different batches of bulls. At the end of four days thousands of people had seen Spain's leading matadors perform. They included: Marcial Lalanda, long considered the best; Nicanor Villalta and Vincente Barrera, also oldtimers; Domingo Ortega, who in his second season is the most talked of matador in Spain; Jaime Noaín, another fast-rising youth; Luis Fuentes Bejarano, who is sometimes brave, sometimes funny...
...Translation: Caesar replied that Pharnaces would meet with the utmost justice if he would perform his promises. Exsecuturus esset is a "quoted condition...
...none of the Hoover proposals last week was the refusal of Washington to assent to what Japan has done in Manchuria. I ask you to remember," said Japanese War Minister Lieut.-General Sadao Araki, tut-tutting the Hoover proposals, "that the Japanese troops are a strictly disciplined force and perform their duties with as little harmfulness as possible...