Word: rococo
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...training in music and vaudeville. With "celebrated musicians" for teachers, it will provide instruction on free scholarships or at low tuition fees. Director will be Radio City's famed figurehead and master of ceremonies, Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel. Last week Roxy pointed out that the nearby, dizzily rococo Roxy Theatre will have to change its name before Sept. 12, 1932, a month before the International Music Hall and a projected cinema palace are scheduled to open. Said he: "Plans for use of my name in the Radio City theatres are not ready for publication, but undoubtedly it will figure...
...years of Depression brought "Coin" Harvey again to the fore with all his old remedies for relief. To his rococo amphitheatre rimmed around with huge signboards inscribed with his fiscal dogma, he summoned his followers, and announced: "Usury has its deadly grip on all governments. A new political party must come quickly into action or civilization itself will be lost. The people have awakened. The hour is at hand...
Earl Carroll's Vanities are rococo. Florenz Ziegfeld's Follies are smart. And yet, in spite of his overpowering, unwholesome gaudiness. Earl Carroll is probably a better showman than Florenz Ziegfeld. When he puts on his annual durbar there is a spontaneity to its promotion which Producer Ziegfeld strives painfully to attain. One night last week a crowd choked Manhattan's Seventh Avenue to witness the most recent, most important mile stone in Producer Carroll's theatrical career. He was presenting the ninth annual Vanities in the newest, largest U. S. playhouse...
...honor to Siegfried Wagner, who died a year ago, a pre-Festival performance of his comic opera An allem ist Hütchen schuld (Blame It All on a Little Hat) was given in the old rococo Margrave's Opera. Came many a Wagnerite, including Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and buxom Frau Wagner who with her four children carries on the dynasty...
...Action. Back from his red brick summer home in Neudeck, East Prussia hurried the 83-year-old Reichspräsident last week to his official Berlin residence, the greystone rococo Palace on the Wilhelmstrasse. He did not leave the premises. Three times a day, his shepherd dog, Rolf, by his side, he tramped the gardens in back for a constitutional, the rest of the time spent with his ministers, signing decrees that Chancellor Brüning suggested. They closed the stock exchanges and for two days, to avert headlong panic, all the banks. They selected a Federal Commissioner of Finance...