Word: seasonally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor-elect W. Lee O'Daniel of Texas celebrated the season by writing a ten-stanza biographical epic which he mailed to friends. Excerpts...
Musicomedy find of the season is vivacious 20-year-old Mary Martin of Leave It to Me. A newcomer to Broadway, she has gladdened Bald Head Row and rear balcony alike with her spirited singing of My Heart Belongs to Daddy: While tearing off a game of golf I may make a play for the caddy; But when I do, I don't follow through 'Cause my heart belongs to daddy. One night last week as she sang it, light-hearted as ever, the rest of the cast, sentimental as actor folk are, could not bear to meet...
...Crowley, had been imported by the Paris-Soir to demonstrate their outlandish game-"a game so brutal that it was banned in the U. S. by the first President Roosevelt, and finally universities were allowed to play it, but only between October and January like a sort of hunting season...
...Hutch," a 200-lb., 6 ft. 2 in. righthander, the sensation of the West Coast last summer, had major-league scouts tripping over one another in the Rainiers' ball park. When he finished the season with 25 games won, seven lost, 145 strikeouts, an earned-run average of 2.48 and a batting average of .313, Owner Emil Sick of the Seattle club put a $100,000 price tag on this rookie pitcher, fresh from high school. Although no club owner was willing to pay that amount in cash, the Tigers -outbidding the rich Yankees, Red Sox, Pirates and Cubs...
...last year's opera season in Chicago was a stocky Livornese tenor named Galliano Masini. When he raised the roof in Tosca and La Gioconda (TIME, Dec. 20, 1937). General Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera House heard about it, signed him up. Last week Tenor Masini's Manhattan debut packed the Metropolitan with an expectant throng. Singing his favorite part, Edgardo in Lucia, Masini failed to make quite as high a mark as he had in Chicago. Critics found him no Caruso but a younger, fresher, less-seasoned Giovanni Martinelli...