Word: populars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sick almost unto death last week with intestinal flu and stomach hemorrhages was popular, convivial, emaciated Presidential Secretary Marvin ("Mac") McIntyre, who usually runs news headquarters ashore when the President goes to sea without the press. Detailed to take "Mac's" place in Miami was Assistant Secretary Bill Hassett, the quiet, dependable oldtime AP man whom Franklin Roosevelt calls "My Bartlett, my Roget, my Buckle...
Walt Disney in his work includes all the ingredients of popular art. It strikes most strongly in the masses and yet is not too low for the most intellectual. It has charm, excitement, and movement which reacts equally on the smallest child and the most sophisticated adult. In short it is a universal art, for all times and all places...
Caesar v. God. Pius XI was "the Pope of Missions." He was also a "Pope of Saints," canonizing during his reign some of the most popular saints of modern times: St. Therese, St. Bernadette of Lourdes, St. Giovanni Bosco (a social service worker who had once been his friend), England's St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, North America's eight Martyrs. Yet the greatness of Pius XI derived less from his spiritual labors for the Kingdom of God than from his long, uncompromising battle against the pretensions of modern Caesars...
Best dog in the show, for the second year in succession: Exquisite Model of Ware, a four-year-old black, white and tan cocker spaniel bitch. Most popular exhibit of merchandise : a gasproof kennel brought out in ''Crisis Week," in which any movement of the dog operates a bel lows under the floor, forces fresh air through respirators...
Next to Salome's, the most popular of operatic strip teases is that of Massenet's sin-shunning Thais. Because dramatic sopranos with decently strippable figures are rare, and because Massenet's music and drama are otherwise soupy and dull, Thais is nowadays seldom performed. Greatest of all Thais strippers was famed Diva Mary Garden, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1907; last at Manhattan's Metropolitan was tempestuous Maria Jeritza, 13 years ago. Last week the Metropolitan revived Thais, in one of the most lavishly costumed productions of its recent years. This...