Word: pied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last season, Hollywood had no production finger in any important Broadway pie. But unlike last season, it paid some fancy prices for hits. Abe Lincoln in Illinois was sold to Max Gordon Plays & Pictures Co. Inc. on a cash and royalty basis that may come to over $300,000, set a record. The American Way was sold to Gordon for $250,000. Setting a precedent, The Philadelphia Story was sold to Katharine Hepburn (its star) before it ever opened on Broadway...
...limbsome "aquafemmes" prance and promenade. Afloat Swimmers Eleanor Holm and Johnny Weissmuller do a kind of aquatic waltz to music while "aquabelles" and "aquabeaux" weave patterned water ballets. A water tumbler (whom Billy Rose forgot to call an aquabat) gets laughs from the water, while four custard-pie pantomimists get laughs on land. The revue finally explodes into a patriotissimic finale, featuring a supercolossal U. S. flag...
...skinny youths up to requirements. At two camps they have been getting a cup of tea and a biscuit before getting up; a breakfast of porridge, hot milk, liver and onion sauce, bread, butter and marmalade; a morning collation of an apple and milk; a lunch of meat pie, cabbage, mashed potatoes, soup, figs and custard; a good big high tea and a dinner of fish and chips, tea, bread and milk. Result: 1,400 have passed the Army tests. Another, unwanted, result: Laborites are asking why undernourished women and children cannot also be fed back to health...
...list in the peace treaty, the Principality technically continued, and still continues, at war with Germany. This is the oldest and most peaceful declared war in the world.* It is also probably the most one-sided in history. Despite this disparity, Liechtenstein is one little slice or territorial pie with plenty of German raisins in it (over 99% of its population ot 10,000 are of German origin) for which Adolf Hitler has not yet developed an appetite...
...program of tonight's concert will be as follows: Kyrie from the Mass in B Minor Johann Sebastian Bach Elegischer Gesang Ludwig Van Beethoven Finale "Canticle of the Sun" from San Franceso D'Assisi G. Francesco Malipiero Pour les Funerailles d'un Soldat Lili Boulanger Pie Jesu Lili Boulanger Psaume: Du Fond de l'Abime Lili Boulanger Psaume XXIV Lili Boulanger...