Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article headed "Undressed Father" in your issue of Nov. 19 reminds me that during the period when Greenough's statue of Washington was displayed on the Capitol plaza, many years ago a friend of mine bestowed on it the title "Washington Begging for His Clothes...
...Page Miss Glory (by Philip Dunning & Joseph Schrank; Schwab & Dunning, producers) is a broad farce about the beauty prize racket. A pair of idlers are about to be tossed out of Manhattan's non-existent Ritz-Plaza Hotel for failure to pay their board bill when one, a composite photographer by trade, hits upon the idea of manufacturing with his lens the most beautiful girl in the U. S. A laxative firm is offering $2,500 for her picture. She is given Greta Garbo's eyes, Constance Bennett's hair, Myrna Loy's lips, Katharine Hepburn's nostrils, Norma Shearer...
Encouraged by the continuing existence of the League of Nations, Manley O. Hudson, Bemis Professor of International Law, told the Foreign Policy Association Saturday at the Copley-Plaza Hotel that the outlook for world peace was more hopeful than the events of the last year would indicate. "The United States is losing much of its hostility towards the League," he said, "so it is within the realm of possibility that some accord may be reached...
Evelyn Prentice (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In Manhattan the characters in this picture read Mr. Hearst's American, lunch at the Waldorf-Astoria, take tea at the Plaza, go to Barney's to get drunk. Pullmans carry them to Boston where they stop at the Copley Plaza. Peppered with such initial bits of information, cinemaddicts may be pardoned for wrongly concluding that in Evelyn Prentice they are witnessing a new cinema effort to combine advertising with amusement. Such touches are merely inserted to prove that John Prentice (William Powell) and his wife (Myrna Loy) are cinema patricians. Since cinema...
France. With rare exceptions no hotel in France is making money and the swank Claridge, Plaza-Athénée and George V in Paris have suffered most of all. What little tourist trade there was last summer took refuge in smaller, cheaper places. French prices are still high even in terms of gold, and in terms of the dollar exorbitant. What is true of France is true of Netherlands and Belgium. Switzerland, where hotelkeeping is the third industry, is even gloomier...