Word: ropp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a Laguna Beach, Calif. garage owner named Harold Bradley was solemnly tapped on the back by his grey-haired fellow citizen Roy M. Ropp and told: "You are The Laughing Cavalier," he neither called a cop, took to his heels, nor swung on the tapper. Like all good Lagunites, Bradley knew at once that this tapping singled him out for an honor-the honor of depicting one of the Living Masterpieces in Director Ropp's famed "Pageant of the Masters...
...evolution of Laguna's elaborate art-shindy from the first threadbare effort of 1932, when depression-dumped artists hung their canvases on a fence facing Main Street and hoped for the best, has been gradual but steady. Five years ago, Real-estate Dealer Ropp, who is also a painter in his spare time, thought up a final terrific touch: a series of tableaux reproducing famous paintings and sculpture on a picture-frame stage. This year 44 paintings and ten pieces of sculpture are on the program. Its 54 letter-perfect, 90-second blackouts introduced by singers and dancers, separated...
...Oberammergau Passion Player. This year, with the Assistance League of nearby Santa Ana offering $200 in art prizes, and the buildup of the local Chamber of Commerce corralling 1,500 spectators into every performance, The Festival of Arts at last got on a paying basis. Jubilant Director Ropp hoped to net $4,000, looked forward to the day when his pageant would have its own permanent outdoor theatre...
Patrons and patronesses are: Professor and Mrs. Walter Clark; Doctor and Mrs. Theodore Ropp; Professor and Mrs. E. F. Langley; Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Fairbank...
Gangens Megaro and Theodore Ropp. as instructors in History; Roger G. Barker as instructor in Psychology...