Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most Alpiners, the Rocky Mountains would be more homelike, but the big money still lies on the low slopes of the East. Skiing, however, is perking up in the West. Last weekend, at Government-built Timberline Lodge on Oregon's 11,253-ft. Mt. Hood. 5,000 spectators watched more than 100 top-flight skiers from the U. S., Canada and Europe compete in the season's most important ski competition, the National Championships. From the winners would be picked the U. S. slalom and downhill teams of five men and five women to be sent...
...Irene Castle: the cinema. Although she is now a worldwide legend, only a few thousand people saw Irene Castle dance. The Wartime movies which The Castles shows her making were not a tremendous success. When Rogers and Astaire first danced together in Flying Down to Rio, movie producers were still apprehensive that audiences would not be enthusiastic about full-length dances on the screen. Rogers and Astaire light-footedly kicked that apprehension into a cocked hat, and in the process (eight pictures) have grossed a total of $18,000.000 for RKO. Irene Castle had her thousands of admirers, Ginger Rogers...
...Duchess Marie Louise going to have her Nap (showing the future Empress of France in bed with Napoleon), Satirist Carle Vernet was able to reply with an incomparably more subtle study called Les Anglais a Paris, three figures of a girl, a fat boy, and a military popinjay which still contain nearly all the French have to say about the English character...
Private patrons put up a little money at first, but Photographer Abbott landed with the Federal Art Project in 1935. A direct girl who still talks harsh Ohio, still wears a Left Bank haircut and beret, she confesses to being scared of heights and crowds until she gets her head under the black cloth. Her dizziest shots are nevertheless sharp, hard and sense-making, though her best are meditative portraits of comely, plain old buildings, dingy shop fronts, chapfallen façades selected from the vast 19th-Century underbrush among Manhattan's skyscrapers...
Married. Clyde E. Pangborn, 42. pilot who in 1931 circled the globe with rich Hugh Herndon Jr., flying nonstop from Japan to the U. S. (a feat still unrepeated); and Mlle Swana Beauclaire Duval, dress designer; in Southampton, England...