Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concerts might be shoes or silver polish for the systematic, hardheaded way they are merchandised in the U. S. New York managers are the wholesalers, local managers the retailers. Sound business means two things: the New York manager has been able to sell a substantial number of dates; and the local managers have been able to sell a sufficient number of seats to make them want to buy again. Artists' fees are lower this year with a few exceptions. So are seats. Bookings are bigger than the New York managers expected. Lily Pons had to turn down 40 dates...
Despite a lack of the polish which should distinguish the professional from the amateur performance, the Stagers this week give a fairly creditable presentation of Vildrac's "S. S. Tenacity." The cast, although unadorned by any widely publicized star, is capable enough and almost shows an ability to fill their roles adequately and convincingly, if the story gave them ample opportunity...
...save" Warsaw, zealous Polish defenders released clouds of artificial fog, supposed to blind the enemy planes. Citizens, who had been warned day before to reinforce the windows of their homes and offices with paper strips, were sternly warned to stay indoors "in case of gas attack." The attack came, though it was only tear gas and only a few unwary citizens were caught in the streets, promptly to be rescued by Red Cross volunteers wearing gas masks. Warsaw, a city of 1,200,000, was paralyzed by the sham raid for seven hours. That night the Government shut...
Morning after, weary Warsawites read in their papers that while their capital was being "attacked" Herr Hitler and M. Lipski had had a most amicable conversation in Berlin. They kept off the subject of the Polish Corridor which Germany would like to have and Poland is resolved to keep. In purely general but significant terms they issued a communique which, while binding nobody, contained an oral non-aggression pledge. "Germany and Poland," they declared, "renounce any use of force in their mutual relations...
...throats in interpreting the Lipski-Hitler communique. "It does not inspire even the most moderate optimism," gloomed the conservative Kurjer Warszawski. But the also conservative Gazeta Polska hailed it as "one of the most important events of the last 15 years, in view of the fact that Polish-German relations have been generally regarded as the tinder box of Europe...