Word: rufus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Murder at the Vanities (by Earl Carroll & Rufus King; music & lyrics by Edward Heyman & Richard Myers). During a matinee of the eleventh edition of the celebrated Vanities, a chorus girl abruptly stops kicking her neat legs and begins to scream. In the orchestra pit the music dwindles discordantly to silence. Directors and managers rush out to investigate. Cause of the disturbance is a pretty girl who, cradled on a rack of scenery pipes, is soon let down on the stage and found to be dead. Although attired in one of the production's costumes, she does not belong...
Thus begins Earl Carroll's current show, a melange of melody and melodrama. Thriller Author Rufus King (Murder by the Clock, Somewhere in This House) has not concocted a murder mystery which would stand on its own scarey merits. Producer Carroll has not provided quite so lavish a treat for playgoing eyes and ears as in past years. But the combined Carroll-King offering does entertain...
Straus D-21: Rufus M. Meadows '32, of Buffalo, N. Y. (St. Mark's School). A member of his Freshman crew squad, and now a first year student in the school of architecture...
...Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. In his Who's Who paragraph the bulky, 70-year-old Gaekwar notes that he "receives a salute of 21 guns." When he visited the World's Fair last week, to his and its immense delight he got his salute. Fair President Rufus Dawes had soldiers drawn up along Michigan Avenue and marched with the Gaekwar in pomp befitting the Fair's first visiting chief-of- state...
University of Southern California's President Rufus Bernhard von Kleinsmid returned from a visit to ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II in Doom, Holland, said that the ex-Kaiser urged all German-Americans to cooperate with President Roosevelt's recovery program...