Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kykunkor (Witch Woman) closed for a few days but last week it reopened uptown in the smart little Chanin Auditorium. Best seats at the Unity Theatre had cost 35?. At the Chanin they were $2.75 and the list of enthusiasts had grown to include Leopold Stokowski, Lawrence Tibbett, George Gershwin, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. "One of the most exciting shows in town," critics were saying. But the songs and dances make it so. Kykunkor's plot is slender. It tells of an African villager who chooses a bride, succumbs to the evil magic of another less...
...Ramon Grau San Martin last January when "garage diplomacy," initiated by U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, forced him to end his four-month regime in resignation. The youngish (49) bachelor surgeon moped off to Mexico City and exile. His successor as Provisional President, Carlos Mendieta, has played a smart and liberal game but has not erased the memory of martyred Grau from the minds of Cuba's lower classes. Still practically ungovernable, they believe in Grau. Last week 100,000 of them, students, workmen, Negroes, sailors, swarmed around the docks in Havana Harbor to welcome their martyr home...
...smart to be goats of the attractive propaganda of bre1wers and distillers," she said. "It is they who have made the cocktail hour smart and popular. Some of our wet friends are now talking about education for enlightened drinking but allied youth feels that if one is enlightened," one does not care to drink. It is the first taste of alcohol which sends the drunkard on the downward path. We feel somewhat superior to these who pay good money to slide down to hill. No we do not want prohibition back again we only want to tackle it from...
With such wise, earnest words Mrs. Edith Halpert, smart mistress of Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, this week opened her sixth annual "$100 show." Mrs. Halpert's previous $100 shows suffered from studio remnants. But no critics could spot unwanted leftovers in this week's exhibit. For sale at $100 each were pictures by such U. S. artists as Peggy Bacon, Bernard Karfiol, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ernest Fiene, Marguerite Zorach, Charles Sheeler, Niles Spencer and many another. Most of the pictures had been marked down from $300 or more...
Hearst's International News Photos turned it down. So did Times Wide World and Acme (a first cousin to United Press and Scripps-Howard). But AP's Kent Cooper called together his directors and his smart picture chief, Norris Huse. They visualized a nationwide network of leased wires flashing all AP pictures to AP papers 24 hours a day-pictures moving over the wires simultaneously with the news, appearing in print alongside the stories as a matter of routine. The job would cost more than a million dollars a year, $560,000 in wire tolls alone. With careful...