Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema heroine should. A college and Juilliard School graduate, she has been in the Auditions of the Air sweepstakes since the first, in 1935. Failing that year, she took a job with the Chautauqua (N. Y.) Opera Company, in the 1936-37 competition tried and failed again. That summer she sang with the St. Louis Municipal Opera. Last season appendicitis kept her out. This season she sang in two Broadway flops, felt that her experience had been rounded out, tried again. Successful, she expects to start with roles like Musetta, Micaela, is confident she can make her $1,000 prize...
Production schedules for this spring and summer read like headings in an encyclopedia. Every major studio has at least one biography already in production, more on the production line. Under way are Young Mr. Lincoln, Stanley and Livingstone, Beethoven, Man of Conquest (Sam Houston), Man in the Iron Mask, Juarez, Brigham Young, Knute Rockne. Promised for next season are Mme Curie, Thomas Edison, Rudolph Valentino, Steinmetz, Lillian Russell, Simon Bolivar, Nobel. Last week the first spring shoot of this bumper crop appeared on U. S. screens. The biggest job to date of Hollywood's sole socialite director, Henry Codman...
Manhattan Island is a stony spine of land occupied by millions of tons of masonry and 8,000,000 souls. To Europe it is a dream, to itself a business, and to the U. S. at large a cultural gold fish bowl. A lot of people this summer are going to see it for the first time. In sober moments they might remember the work of a woman who has devoted herself for ten years to seeing it, and making her camera see it, as material for history...
...scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected by a chauffeur with club and revolver, the authors distributed black bread to starving peasants, some of whom had not tasted bread in seven years. Best photograph: A Slovakian goosegirl, ganders and geese against a background of rolling, lawnlike fields, mountains, summer clouds...
...Jack's. This month's American Mercury has Wolfe's Portrait of a Literary Critic, a mock tribute to a corkscrewy reviewer. Next issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review will carry Wolfe's A Western Journey, diary of his trip to the Northwest last summer, taken from pencil notes written at night, or scribbled in an automobile going 60 m.p.h. Current issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review carries a memoir of Thomas Wolfe by Henry T. Volkening, a colleague of his teaching days. Theme of Volkening's recollections -Wolfe's difficulties and anxieties about...