Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami. Louisville, Detroit for one month each. With rules patterned after six-day bicycle races, except that both members of the teams are allowed to leave the track between 4 a. m. and 8 p. m. daily, Roller Derby racing made its New York debut last week. Scene was the famed old Hippodrome, which has housed everything from Grand Opera to a circus...
...addition to Bishop Hill's beards Olof Krans painted many a Rousseauesque scene of life in the old colony. Most startling was a group of shawled and coated women huddled about what looked like a guillotine on a platform over a little river. They were the women of Bishop Hill operating a primitive pile driver...
Another early Krans beloved of the colony's descendants showed a fiercelooking Jansonite settler in his Lapland boots, buffalo robe coat, wide leather belt scaring the daylights out of a Plains Indian. Most decorative was a scene of seven scythe-swinging reapers, moving rhythmically over a gigantic wheat field while the women followed behind, gathering and binding the sheaves...
...that sum a purchaser had his choice of such particular bargains as two fine nudes by Emil Ganso, a crowded Coney Island beach scene by Reginald Marsh, a languorous Siamese cat by Agnes Tait, a lithograph of wild horses by last year's PWA discovery, Frank Mechau Jr., a group of bulbous people looking at other strange fish in an aquarium window by Mabel Dwight, a fine winter landscape by Ernest Fiene...
Named corespondent was Actor Philip Merivale, who was bedded with Actress Cooper in the opening scene of last season's Manhattan dramatic success, Call...