Word: show
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman twice, with Molla Bjurstedt Mallory twice). She has won 240 cups-mostly at tennis, squash and horse-show jumping...
From Lisbon, Portugal, World's Fairer Grover Whalen embarked for the U. S. after a three-month European tour to shore up his next year's show with foreign expositionists. Said Salesman Whalen: "My visit was satisfactory. I believe I can say all countries I visited will reopen their pavilions at the World's Fair, as well as Poland and Czecho-Slovakia...
...lantern-lighted hole full of the din of drilling, sketches everything he sees. Mining engineers admire his sombre, accurate pictures, in 1936 invited him to join the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Last week laymen too had their chance to admire, for Artist Hoffman's first show since 1935 opened in Manhattan at the Associated American Artists' Galleries. One admirer: Mining Engineer Herbert Hoover...
...John Gay decided to take Italian opera for a ride. He picked his tunes from the songs the butchers & bakers sang, strung them on a lowbrow plot about London cops, gangsters and bums, made his tattered characters ape the flouncy foibles of London's diamond horseshoe. His musical show, The Beggar's Opera, became London's biggest...
...Year, a Semi-Annual Journal of Literature, The Arts and Civil Liberties, published by Twice A Year in Manhattan. Each is a subsidized enterprise, each is edited by its own patron, and each claims a more independent policy, a purer concern with pure literature, than professional publishing can show. Readers in the autumn of 1939 could look to them for such nonconformist stuff as The Dial and The Little Review used to print in the years before Depression...