Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Great Britain, said Prime Minister Seville Chamberlain last week, would never submit to threats and change its Far Eastern policy at Japan's bidding. When the British and Japanese negotiators got down to real work at Tokyo last week however, Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita insisted in discussions with Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador, that Britain admit she had sinned against Japan and promise in the future to recognize "the necessity" of Japan's operations in China. He threatened to break off negotiations unless Sir Robert first signed a general formula to that effect...
Divorced. Gracie Fields (real name: Stansfield), 41, Britain's No. 1 music-hall comic; from Actor-Producer Archie Pitt; in London, England...
Anna E. King became a social worker as a sideline; her real job was writing advertising copy for a paint & varnish company in Cleveland. When the nuns of the Convent of the Good Shepherd, where she helped to look after delinquent girls, told her they needed a fulltime, trained assistant, she quit her job, went to Western Reserve University, took her M.Sc. in applied social sciences in 1926. After three years at the convent she became supervisor of the Children's Bureau in Cleveland, joined the faculty of Western Reserve in 1929. In 1934 she went to New York...
...world. For nearly half a century, however, its financial setup has been nearly as musty as some of its scenery. The Metropolitan Opera Association, which produces the operas, does not own the dirty, mustard-colored building on midtown Broadway, but leases it from the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Co. This organization is nothing more nor less than the owners of the Metropolitan's 35 parterre boxes ("Diamond Horseshoe"). Each box holder owns 300 shares of $100-par stock, and liability for a possible annual assessment up to $15 a share...
Manhattan society has let its hair down in recent years, no longer counts an opera box the chief symbol of eminence. Metropolitan box holders have begun to dodge their assessments. Last week the fact-facing news came out that the real-estate company is feeling the pinch, may face liquidation. So said its President Robert S. Brewster in a letter to the Opera Association's Chairman Cornelius Newton Bliss. In reply, the Association (which has a lease for next season) asked for an option on the opera house for $1,500,000 (one-third cash). Should the option contract...