Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only Gilbert and Sullivan could do justice to England's royal marry-go-round. In the center ring the emperor of one sixth of the world kneels before a twice-divorced charmer from the southland, while on either side the lords temporal and spiritual beat their breasts in dismay, the American press makes the cables blush, and there is distinct teeth gnashing in the orchestra pit. Last week the Communist Party investigated reports that Mrs. Simpson was pro-fascist, but the situation is losing its farcical nature, and certain events show that England's ruling class is profoundly disturbed...
When Artur Bodanzky guided the San Francisco Opera Company through Wagner's Ring last year (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935), the U. S. rang with his success. It was the first time San Franciscans had heard the great tetralogy in years, the third time they had ever heard it. Faces fell when the directors announced that Bodanzky would not return this season, that plump, pleasant Fritz Reiner would succeed him. Know-it-alls began to gossip that Reiner planned to pare down expenses and substitute cheaper instruments for the prescribed tub en quartet, the indispensable bass trumpet. In London last...
...members of the original stage cast (Teddy Hart and Sam Levene), Three Men On A Horse is more than just a very funny picture. It has the authentic lilt and shuffle of that Broadway half-world whose deflated, hard-packed mirth had had no equal interpretation since the late Ring Lardner. Best scenes : the Lavillere staff, including the bartender, the bellhop and the maid, working on Oiwin's greeting-card orders; Patsy's girl Mabel (Joan Blondell) keeping Oiwin from going; home by showing him the specialty she did in the Follies...
...Atlantic City, N. J., Mrs. Frank Hippie won a divorce after witnesses testified her husband had traded her wedding ring for three pints of liquor...
Enough canvas to spread a new top over John Ringling's three-ring circus was on view in Manhattan's art galleries last week. In the busiest week the U. S. art world has seen in many years, 30 separate exhibitions opened. Many of them were worth the attention of any U. S. citizen. Among the best...