Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still in rehearsal last week was still another grand-scale ice show, the European All-Star Ice Revue. Its cast includes two dozen British skaters who found themselves jobless this winter, Switzerland's famed Armand Perren (King Leopold's skating instructor), South Africa's Edwina Blades and New York's peppy Audrey Peppe (twice runner-up for the U. S. amateur figure-skating championship), who turned professional last week...
...which stands on an eminence commanding the fen country of Cambridgeshire. Named for the eels abounding in its waters, eely Ely is a market town of only 8,000-odd inhabitants. Its fairs, held on the feast of Saxon St. Etheldreda (or St. Audrey, whence the word tawdry), are still nominally run by the Bishop of Ely. There is not much else for His Lordship to do in Ely; nearby Cambridge has more religious life, and there the Ely diocesan conferences are held. Yet, because he is a member of the Established Church of England, drawing ?4,000 a year...
Last week Huey's feud against "lyin' newspapers" (still carried on by Brother Earl Kemp Long, now running to succeed himself as Governor) exploded in a court order for contempt proceedings against the New Orleans Item-the same Item that once offered Huey a job. Marshall Ballard's paper got in trouble when it used some ugly words in connection with some of Long's followers. But the Item was only saying openly what other New Orleans papers have said by implication for years...
...circulation was down to 28,614, less than when it started before Huey's rise to power. The Item (64,894) and the States (46,818) were approximately where they stood in 1924. But the Times-Picayune had risen from 78,571 to 111,529, was still New Orleans' favorite newspaper...
...huge audience that stormed the Academy of Music to hear him found that Rachmaninoff was still pretty good at both, listened reverently while he poked thunderbolts out of the kettledrums and beckoned concords of sweet snarls from the banked fiddles. Two days later he repeated the performance in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall...