Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after bottle of Scotch whiskey was emptied as Edinburgh settled down to its biggest party in years. For Queen Elizabeth, daughter of the Scottish Earl of Strathmore, her homecoming was a triumph. As she reviewed ex-service men, 84-year-old ex-Sergeant George Alexander greeted her with a rich burr: "You're a bonnie lassie. I wish I'd courted you mysel...
...because paint had to be applied while the walls were wet, Artist Vanka stayed on his scaffolding virtually all day and usually until 2 or 3 a. m. At night Father Zagar stayed with him, droning prayers. Over the domed altar he painted a 36-ft. Madonna & Child in rich reds and blues, violet and silver, on one side wall a scene of Croatian peasants kneeling at the Angelus, on the other Croatian miners in the U. S. standing with heads bowed while a Franciscan priest, posed by St. Nicholas' pastor, kneels to invoke God's blessing...
King Solomon's Mines is as rich in scenery as it is in make-believe. The principals are trapped in a sandstorm, in a burning thatched village, in a gurgling underground crater which erupts upon their entrance. Majestically pictured is Paul Robeson, scaling peak and precipice, chanting Mighty Mountain-I'm Going to Climb You. For some spirited shield-whacking and spear-hurling filmed in South Africa, Director Robert Stevenson hired 5,000 native Impingi. who were reluctant to act because they thought they were being drafted for a new European war. Good shot: Robeson digging for water...
Twenty-six years ago Louis Eckstein, rich Chicago merchant and real-estate operator, began sponsoring summer music in Ravinia Park, 37 acres of woodland which he owned on Chicago's North Shore. Depression interrupted the concerts in 1932 and Patron Eckstein died in 1935 before they were resumed. When his widow agreed to let Ravinia be used for summer music again, 25 businessmen raised $30,000 and reopened Ravinia last summer (TIME, July 13). Back to Chicago last week went Lucrezia Bori, Leon Rothier and Mario Chamlee (Archer Ragland Cholmondeley) who had helped make Ravinia opera nationally known...
Settled around 1760 by a rich Frenchman and his New Orleans quadroon mistress, the 60-mile stretch of Cane River land was inherited by "free-mulattoes" who married New Orleans mulattoes, brought in French architects to build their houses, had their portraits painted, owned their own slaves. After the Civil War they had to sell out piecemeal to the present owners and antique-hunters, became sharecroppers. But they held on to their aristocratic traditions. To ward off outsiders, they married among themselves, had illegitimate children by itinerant whites, but kept strictly apart from Negroes. Almost white, fine-featured. French-speaking...