Word: soho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, a handsome young man named Allen Lane, 33-year-old son of an architect, quit his job in his uncle's publishing house (the famed Bodley Head) and started publishing pocket-size, paperbound Penguin books. His original capital: ?100. His publishing office: a crypt beneath a Soho church. Tables were tomb tops; storage space was empty tombs. The first six months he sold over a million copies, including such titles as Hemingway's Farewell to Arms, André Maurois' Ariel, Mowrer's Germany Puts the Clock Back...
Seven-year-old Scophony is the lusty baby of British television. Guided by squat, bespectacled Russian-refugee Sagall, it weathered five years of bailiff dodging, grew from a room and a half in Soho to $1,050,000 capitalization, achieved financial association with Odeon. Competitor in large-screen television is Baird Television Ltd. partly owned by Gaumont-British Picture Corp., Ltd. They report several orders for theatre television screens, do not specify which theatres, might offer BBC loans of Gaumont-British stars in exchange for programs...
...London's brummagem, polyglot Soho quarter last week, the end of the Octave of Epiphany-brought the end of a series of services at old St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, which had successively been conducted in German, Italian, Lithuanian, Latin, Gaelic, Polish, French, English, Spanish, Russian. In the last tongue, no sermon had been preached before in a Catholic church in England. Preacher was Father Bourgeois, crack French Jesuit whose order has transferred him from the Church's Latin rite to its Russian rite, as key man in a new campaign to convert...
Casts for the Gold Coasters' Christmas plays, "Invisible Rule," and "Two Gentlemen of Soho," have been announced...
...Gentlemen of Soho" are: Alan S. Geismer '38, Richard Smith 1G, John Raymont 1G, Robert G. Koch '39, William M. Whitman '39, Miss Ruth Williams, Miss Mary Lou Walpole, and Miss Virginia Leach...