Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Music's great human-interest story ten years ago was that of Mary Lewis, jolly blonde soprano who had run away from foster parents in Little Rock, Ark., attained the Ziegfeld Follies and suddenly thereafter the Metropolitan Opera. After her rags-to-riches headlines pretty Mary Lewis was quickly forgotten by most Manhattan music writers. She married German Basso Michael Bohnen, soon divorced him for wealthy Robert L. Hague, oil and shipping tycoon...
...down at his board in the New York News office, drew a petulant, pot-bellied little man, naked except for a silk hat, labeled him "Old Deal." This character, funny yet forceful, caught the public fancy at once, grew famed when Cartoonist Batchelor pictured him perched pensively on a rock high over Washington, reflecting, "Gawd, how I hate his guts." Since then "Old Deal" has boasted, blustered, sneered, gloomed, acquired a pair of shorts and a sunflower patch over his navel, served as inspiration for a new political animal, taken his place in cartoon history...
...easel in the back garden, painted the only canvas he has had time for since starting work on the Department of Justice murals. It showed a dirt road winding down between budding willows to the sea; in the foreground a half-nude workman lies on a sunny rock; one woman kneels beside him while another is climbing up from the fields below (see cut). For models Artist Kroll used a onetime ditchdigger and sculptor's assistant named Jim McClellan, Mrs. Demetrios, wife of Sculptor George Demetrios, a farmer's daughter named Olga. He named the canvas The Road...
...insufficient Federal aid, the year's appropriations for the National Museum were $716,000, up $61,000 from the preceding year. In addition, PWA allotted $680,000 to build a pachyderm house, an addition to the bird house and a house for small mammals for the zoo in Rock Creek Park...
...Washington observatory will have a new building on the summit. This structure, two stories high, has been designed by the engineering staff of the Boston and Maine railroad to withstand wind velocities of over 200 miles an hour, and will be anchored by bolts sunk four feet into the rock. Construction is already in progress, under the direction of Col. Henry N. Teague...