Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most delicate Daladier-Chamberlain finesse now being attempted is to detach from the Rome-Berlin Axis the dictatorial Government of Portugal, the country which has been Generalissimo Francisco Franco's chief source of transshipped munitions and troops all during the Spanish Civil War. This summer the Portuguese have been adroitly bargaining with Britain and Germany, haggling to see whether Democracy or Naziism would bid the higher. Portuguese ports have been alternately infested with British and German warships on "goodwill missions." According to London dispatches last week, a major bargain has now finally been struck by Portuguese Dictator...
Year after she made Extase, Actress Kiesler, daughter of a Viennese banker, married Austrian Munitions Tycoon Fritz Mandl. He made her quit acting and by last summer, after their marriage was dis solved by the French courts, had spent nearly $300,000 trying to take Extase out of circulation. Last fall Hedy popped up on the Normandie under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, on landing stole some of the spotlight from such noted fellow voyagers as Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravet, Ambassador Bill Bullitt...
...planning an opera on a German historical subject. The librettist: Dr. Joseph Gregor, 50-year-old director of the Theatrical Collection in Vienna's famed National Library. Arrangements were soon made to have Strauss's forthcoming opus premiered at the opening of Munich's world-famed summer opera season. But last week, as the rehearsals were well under way, and the score of the opera was released to the public, war-loving Nazis got another unpleasant surprise. Obstinate Bavarian Strauss and his guaranteed Aryan librettist had concocted an impassioned plea against war. Its title: Friedenstag...
...exception of Victor Herbert, only one U. S. composer was ever so inventive of melody and rhythm that a full evening of his work could attract vast crowds to a concert. Four times during the life of the late George Gershwin, the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, in its summer series, sold out Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium with all-Gershwin evenings. Last week, on the day after the first anniversary of Gershwin's death, the Philharmonic joined forces with Paul Whiteman and his orchestra, played the fifth Gershwin Memorial concert to be heard during the past year...
Sandwiched neatly between winter boom and summer slump of sponsored radio, the week of March 6 was chosen by the Federal Communications Commission's statisticians as typical for their first large-scale survey of what was coming over the air. Reports from 633 stations, released last week, revealed the percentage of broad casting time given to the seven major types of radio programs. One item surprised listeners...