Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staged the feature performance-Inventor Edison working by oil lamp over his old bench, tinkering with his old tools, fabricating a replica of the first incandescent electric lamp, switching on the current, seeing the wires glow yellow, then shambling over to his old reed organ in the corner to play a few tunes. The tinkering was the climax of the celebration of "Light's Golden Jubilee." At a preceding jubilee dinner famed voices lauded the greatest Edison achievement. Owen D. Young was toastmaster. President Hoover spoke pleasantly, briefly. Mr. Ford made appropriate remarks. From a radio loudspeaker came...
Lolly. Two flies, one mechanical and one temperamental, have long been present in the ointment of fashionable Manhattan theatre-goers. Mechanically, it is impossible to dine at 8 o'clock and see the first act of any play. Temperamentally, it is annoying not to know in advance whether the play will be sad or amusing, a problem or a diversion...
...remove these flies is the purpose of a socialite undertaking called the New York Theatre Assembly, which has now presented the first of a series of "amusing plays, in an intimate theatre, before a selected audience." The curtain rises at 9 o'clock. The play, by Fannie Heaslip Lea, describes the love affairs of two men, two women and a gigolo. Mary Young, expert in the impersonation of giddy dowagers (Dancing Mothers, Gypsy) is beset by the gigolo (Alberto Carrillo), and only escapes when her girlhood suitor (Hugh Miller), upon whom her family had frowned, returns after two decades...
...tall, lean, Indian-like. Legend says that during some 20 years of speculating he has four times pyramided a $1,000 stake to $500,000, and lost it. Since July, Bear Danforth has clawed feverishly, often turning from bear tactics to buy a stock for a quick play. Although new Danforth fortunes are set at $5,000,000 or $7,000,000, or $10,000,000, knowing friends claim he is not the decline-causing bear of Manhattan gossip, but a shrewd trader who follows trends. Married, Bear Danforth has three children and a Bellanca airplane used chiefly for trips...
Surgeons, anesthetists and hospital managers met in Chicago last week to study, discuss, argue, play and be seen. Being seen was important, for the only ways in which a professional man can spread his reputation is by getting research published, demonstrating at a clinic, having his patients gossip about his work, and presenting himself to his colleagues for personal study. So some 3,000 men and a few women took time to display themselves at Chicago. The big affair of the week was the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, whose Fellows include all the good practitioners...