Word: star
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...star was Comedienne Ruth Gordon, who made a great success last season in Wycherley's scandalous Country Wife. She plays Nora in .4 Doll's House as a childlike, skipping chucklehead, a unique individual rather than the social type Ibsen meant her to symbolize, thus helps transform the play from an outmoded indictment into a moving character study. As Nora's complacent spouse, Dennis King, hero of operettas, farces and romantic dramas, plays Ibsen as well as he sings Lehar and Friml. For all of Torvald's prissy traits, Actor King makes him pitiable...
...went up to $41. Last year it stood at $42.50. Last week, on the last day of 1937, the Boston Evening American and the Washington Evening Star announced that they were going to raise their prices from 2? to 3? and eight other U. S. newspapers-from the Atlanta Georgian to the Omaha World-Herald-raised their weekly subscription rates 5?. For by the end of 1938 all newsprint will be costing $50 a ton. That will raise the year's operating costs of U. S. newspapers about...
...STAR OVER CHINA-Edgar Snow- Random House...
...first to interview its leaders, the first to get photographs of Chinese Soviet life, the first to see its army in action, the first to get from its leaders a story of its 6,000-mile "Long March" from Kiangsi to Shensi. As a piece of journalistic enterprise Red Star Over China ranks with John Reed's Ten Days that Shook the World, tells a story scarcely less sensational...
...means so vividly written as Reed's masterpiece, Red Star Over China is slowed down by essays on Chinese history, discussions of education and propaganda, accounts of critical battles fought in inaccessible country. Delighting in the ramifications of Chinese politics, Edgar Snow seems to step aside to discuss every war lord who fought Chiang Kaishek, made peace with him, got mad, led a campaign against the Reds or accepted an alliance with them to fight Japan...