Word: prima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unlike U. S. baseball, there are no highly-paid prima donnas in soccer. All players receive a standard weekly wage (?4 to ?8), are seldom singled out for acclaim by sportswriters. The team is the thing. Arsenal, the most famed team in England, draws the largest crowds, makes the most money and gets the biggest headlines. Its director and part owner, paunchy, jowled George Allison, brought to British soccer in 1933 the flair for publicity he learned during 22 years as a London journalist for William Randolph Hearst. Into his new million-dollar stadium, Director Allison, a onetime Yorkshire soccer...
Croil Hunter, president of Northwest Airlines, promptly called at the Department of Commerce. Considering Northwest's record as prima facie evidence of careful operation, observers regarded the suspension of Northwest's passenger license - not only for its Lockheed 14Hs but for all its ships-as punitive. They guessed that the Department of Commerce, up to its ears in criticism for having approved the fatal ship, would quickly restore Northwest's license, look for another goat. Said Senator Copeland, accident-conscious chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee: "Whether or not the structure of the plane was properly planned...
...cease to have power to run the Federal Government, confidence will not return to America. . . . Congress may be incoherent, but it is not so flippant as the President and his posse of experimenting and irresponsible advisors. . . . Will they dare to ring down the curtain on the President's prima donna performances which are at the root of this Crisis of Confidence...
...question is how to get Prima Donna Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) from Manhattan to the Argentine, to fulfill an engagement in Buenos Aires. Her faded diva aunt (Helen Westley) insists that she go to Paris instead. Up from the pampas come Emissary James Guthrie (Melvyn Douglas) and his stooge, "Pancho" Brown (Stuart Erwin), who lay siege to Elsa with flowers, gifts, attentions. When Elsa discovers what seems to be a ring of cold business in Guthrie's honeydew phrases. the plot bears to the left, but the clairvoyant audience knows it will come right again...
Stage Henke's skating is featured, and justly go, for she is certainly a "prima ballerina" on Ice. Balletom-anes and and others should be the interested in seeing Miss Honie's interpretation of "Prince igor." Her acting is quite equal to that of the handsome Tyrone Power who plays Prince charming. His Royal Highness meets the skating instructress of an Alpine Hotel (Miss Honie) while both are skilling, the outcome being an international scandal...