Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Tatarescu's followers had won only 38.5% of the Chamber seats, the Premier claimed they had won just over 40% of the popular vote, and that that sufficed. Next the Government suddenly announced that as yet there were no official returns. Everyone already knew, however, that the main feature of the poll, apart from Tatarescu's failure to win 40%, had been tremendous gains by the so-called Rumanian Nazis...
Music for Three Waltzes was written by three homonymous composers. For Act I the melodies are Johann Strauss Sr.'s, popular Viennese bandleader of the mid-19th Century. Act II is credited to his son, Johann Jr., who wrote over 400 dance tunes, many operettas (Die Fledermaus, et al.). Act III's music is by Oscar Straus (Chocolate Soldier...
...calls herself a "mime" (she pronounces it "meem") had a show of gouaches and drawings in Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries, gave her first Manhattan's theatre performances of the season and published her first book.* Pretty well shot by this triple demonstration was a ten-year-old, popular suspicion that Angna Enters is merely highbrow...
...young woman at a party in Vienna Provincial; and Queen of Heaven, for which Miss Enters recently got into the bad books of the Roman Catholic bishop of Montana. having quoted, as a program note, Henry Adams' remark that in the 12th Century the Virgin Mary was more popular than...
Most U. S. artists are the opposite of prolific, and only a few can live comfortably on their sales without some form of continuing support such as WPA has provided. Contrary to popular belief, in most cases it is not the dealer but the artist who pays for the gallery show by which public and critical attention is attracted to his work. Usual cost: anywhere from $150 for a modest show to $500 for a big one with a cocktail party preview. About the lowest price on a first-rate U. S. painting last year was $100. The highest price...