Word: previewed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every Saturday Night" and "The Preview Murder Mystery," contrary to the conventional double-feature bill that relies on one first-class picture to draw the public and lets the other pass as a sop to time, are both highly amusing. The two movies at the Paramount and Fenway, though not exceptional, have no periods of "let-down" and are consistently entertaining...
...seed." Because they are "female sterile," the flowers cannot be mated with one another. But not being "male sterile," their strain can be continued by using their pollen to fertilize the double hybrids. The 60-petaled super-double hybrids were shown in Manhattan last week at a special preview for horticulturists, to whom Mr. Burpee recounted the story of his find. The flower has been patented under the name Trapaeolum majus Burpeeii, Mr. Burpee being granted Plant Patent...
Shuffling past all these at a special preview last week went Andrew W. Mellon, his daughter Mrs. David Kilpatrick Bruce. John D. Rockefeller Jr., Junius Morgan, Miss Helen Frick and five members of her family, besides some 700 other socialites, to the great delight of society reporters. Almost unnoticed in the pack was a little old lady in a black hat: Mrs. Andrew Carnegie setting foot in the Frick house for the first time in her life...
...Chinese Government not only lent the Manchu treasures but sent a corps of light-fingered experts to pack and unpack them, to set them up in Burlington House against roll upon roll of special canvas backgrounds. King George and Queen Mary did not attend last week's special preview but onetime Queen Victoria of Spain, the Crown Prince of Sweden, Margot Asquith, Lady Astor, Ramsay MacDonald, Gordon Selfridge and Mrs. Stanley Baldwin were all there together. Enthused the Daily Mail...
...hopeful effort to bring U. S. art to persons outside a few big cities got under way last week with a preview exhibition in Manhattan's Weyhe Gallery of 105 etchings and lithographs by 38 of the best-known graphic artists in the U. S. Sponsored by an organization known as American Artists Group, Inc. the prints are all framed alike, under transparent celluloid instead of glass to prevent breakage in shipment, within a month four identical shows of similar prints will be traveling to department stores in 50 provincial cities accompanied by elaborate catalogs, and a lecturer...