Word: staying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week. When 200 of them failed to leave after the first show, the management learned what was up. The 200 were jobless musicians from Local 802, biggest branch of the American Federation of Musicians. They had come well-supplied with cigarets and sandwiches and prepared to stay in their seats until RKO Service Corp. should agree to hire two movie-house orchestras for its theatres in each of New York's five boroughs. By the time they had seen the fifth run of the Palace's double feature, many of Local 802 were asleep. Others massed...
...Rockettes reach Paris June 25, will put up in suburban St. Cloud. Twelve Frenchwomen, hand-picked by Exposition authorities, will look after the Rockettes during their two-week stay to help keep their discipline and deportment up to its high U. S. standard. For their official appearance, the Rockettes will dance four of their most famous routines in 16 minutes: Military March, in which 72 legs operate as synchronously as two; a buck & wing number; Midshipmen, a fast, stylized version of Annapolis drills; Beguine, a sultry, rumba-ish performance for which the girls make up like mulattoes...
...prestige, tried to loosen the line that was dropping Red. Slim got to Wilcox in time. He and Wilcox were both hurt. When Slim wrote the news to Cally, she came out to nurse him. She fixed it for him to have a job in maintenance, where he could stay put and raise a family. Once more Slim thought he'd go with Red, so Cally called off their wedding. Climax in the contest between love for Cally and the job of being a lineman came in the power-house yard on a snowy night, with the ends...
...most stay-at-home Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, 75-year-old Bachelor James Clark McReynolds, last week stirred from his Washington apartment to attend an alumni banquet at his alma mater, Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. What brought Alumnus McReynolds (Class of '82) and 500 other alumni back to Vanderbilt was a long-awaited, long-dreaded piece of news. At 77, their Chancellor James Hampton Kirkland, the Grand Old Man of Southern Education, was going to retire...
Those who stay around until July 10 will have the pleasure of seeing in the Stadium the Thirteenth International track meet between the combined forces of Harvard and Yale and Oxford and Cambridge...