Word: roy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel de Basil when veteran Massine departs. The troupe's three other new ballets were all done by him, performed in London during the summer. The Gods Go ABegging, music by Handel, is an old Diaghilev work, with old scenery by Bakst. With décor by Pierre Roy, French modernist, The Amorous Lion is based on a fable by La Fontaine which begins with this couplet: Love, love, when you invade our hearts, That moment common sense departs. Lichine patterned Francesca da Rimini after an episode in Dante, just as Tchaikovsky used Dante as the basis...
...Distributor Charles S. Howard of San Francisco, having sold Buicks since the company began, now enjoys possession of the race horse Seabiscuit. Ford Dealer Samuel Breadon owns the St. Louis Cardinals. Packard Dealer Alvan Tufts Fuller became Governor of Massachusetts. Newest star to rise from the dealer ranks is Roy Samuel Evans, president of new American Bantam...
...same size, but better streamlined and twice as powerful as the ill-fated American Austin (now defunct, though Austin Motor Co. Ltd. still prospers in Europe), the Bantam is being made in the old Austin plant at Butler, Pa. under the leadership of a onetime Austin salesman named Roy Samuel Evans who has had a genuine Horatio Alger career (see p. 63). Made up as coupé, roadster or truck, the Bantam "60" is 120 in. overall, has four cylinders, is claimed to get 60 mi. per gal. of gas, 60,000 mi. per set of tires, 60 m.p.h. speed...
House waitresses will no longer wear their familiar hat band headgear but will substitute hairnets, according to an order, which took effect last night, coming from the office of Roy L. Westcott, Manager of the University Dining Halls...
...Mont Laurier, Quebec. Lumberman Henri Chagnon became so annoyed when a fractured leg failed to heal that he stumped in on crutches to see his physician. Dr. Gustave Roy. Said Henri Chagnon drawing an ancient revolver: "Make your act of contrition. I am going to kill you." He pulled the trigger, his gun failed to go off, he went to jail...