Word: recording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Geegee and Leelee. Ginger Rogers had one of the most determined mothers of the period. Mrs. Rogers, by this time a reporter on the Fort Worth Record and the highly efficient business manager of the Fort Worth symphony orchestra, quit her jobs after Ginger's Charleston victory, helped manage the tour which was first prize. Four years later, after the customary interludes of night-club engagements and vaudeville acts, Ginger Rogers reached Broadway as ingenue star of Girl Crazy. During the 45-week run of Girl Crazy (at $1,000 a week), Ginger Rogers made five pictures at Paramount...
...record of six months' travel in Czecho-Slovakia before Munich, North of the Danube contains eight sensitive, compact sketches by Erskine Caldwell, 64 photographs which include some of the best Margaret Bourke-White has done. Slighter than their classic word & picture study of the South, You Have Seen Their Faces, it unfortunately appears when Czecho-Slovakia is a last year's bird's nest. But this is a travel book with an interest which survives politics; even as its subject, the Czecho-Slovakian peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected...
...Villard's fights were on paper. He saw revolution in Munich and Berlin. He was held up when reactionaries broke into a Bavarian legislative session, kidnapped radical delegates. There are enough such climaxes in the 543 forthright, unsparing pages of Fighting Years to make it a valuable record. But Author Villard writes of revolution and shifts in The Nation's policy in the same steady way-for him, obviously, the battles are more important than his book...
...inter-House sports the House also boasts an excellent record having taken the Straus Trophy three out of four years. This House spirit is further manifested in a year book the "Chronicle" and a small weekly newspaper the "Chroniclette...
...summer trip would give Irv a good chance to get in shape for the 1940 Olympics, as he expects to wade through all American competition without much difficulty. As a matter of record, however, it appears that strenuous opposition will be provided from little Belgium, because in Gramment at the "Feast of Der Krakclinge" the good burghers have been lapping up 500 live goldfish anually since...