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...Cornish growers of broccoli, succulent vegetable, adopted last week a "National Mark" for their produce bearing a map of England exactly like that on the Daily Mail egg placards. For export to France the broccoli is labeled Choux-Fleurs, Premiére Qualitó, while Germans will receive Blumenkohl, Prima Qualit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eggs! Eggs! Eggs! | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...PRIMA DONNA-Pitts Sanborn-Longmans, Green, 2 vols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seven Men | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Seven men and music make the story of Helma Seymour, a pretentious life cycle of a U. S. prima donna which begins in a mid-western town and revolves ironically to a prosperous and almost respectable middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seven Men | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...scorned her, until it was a half-crazed creature, without ambition, almost without voice, whom Dubosc mercifully took to Paris. There she met Raymond who was young. They lived together, went to Tours together where Dubosc had arranged for Helma's apprenticeship. In Tours she was soon the prima donna, successful because she was healthy, worked hard, sang splendidly. John O'Brien, a visiting tenor, heard her, got her an engagement in Paris. Then came the problem of Raymond. A young singer at the Paris Opera should have no handicaps. Raymond, fortunately, understood this. Helma's next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seven Men | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Maribel Vinson, National Champion Woman Skater, who is a student at Radcliffe, will be the Prima Ballerina of the evening. Miss Vinson placed second in the world championship competition last year. Her corps de Ballet will be composed of Boston debutantes and sub-debutantes, who are reported to cut notable figures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clark, Harvard Sportsman, to be Duke of the Evening at Russian Skating Bee--Pony on Runners Gives Horseplay | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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