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...Mielziner was taken up by the New York Theatre Guild. Since then he has designed sets for 56 productions, a list including such memorable and diverse productions as The Guardsman, The Wild Duck, Strange Interlude, Street Scene, first, second and third Little Shows, The Barretts of Wimpale Street, Of Thee I Sing, Bloodstream (see p. 45). More important to last week's exhibition was the fact that Jo Mielziner is not only a sound stage designer but also a facile, amusing, often brilliant draughts man. Robert Edmond Jones's completed sets are generally more effective than his sketches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Theatre | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...other hand, Lois Moran topped a middling success in last season's This is New York with an appearance in the smash-hit Of Thee I Sing. Charles ("Buddy") Rogers, and, to a far greater degree, Lupe Velez, are currently enjoying a profitable association with Florenz Ziegfeld in his ornamental Hot-cha! An old leading man of Miss Moran's, Lawrence Gray, lent a dignified if uncertain grace to The Laugh Parade about the same time that Fay Wray starred in a short engagement of her husband's strange musical mixture, Nikki. Life Begins (by Mary McDougal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...popular records are not so popular this year as usual. Those selling best are from the musicomedies Face the Music (Irving Berlin), Hot-cha (Brown & Henderson), Of Thee I Sing (George Gershwin). Despite Depression there is a steady demand for symphonic records, but radio quickly kills many a good domestic popular tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Foreign Records | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

...program for the Plymouth concert tomorrow will include the following numbers! "Hallelujah Chorus," by Beethoven (to be sung by the combined choruses); "I Will not Leave You Comfortless," by Byrd; "Gently Johnny," English Folk song; "Choruses from the 'Mikado,", Sullivan; "Fire, Fire, My Heart," by Thomas Morley; and "To Thee Alone Be Praise," by Bach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB OPENS VARIED SCHEDULE OF 1932 CONCERTS | 3/2/1932 | See Source »

...fezzed President Khalid Sheldrake of the Western Islamic Association touched her hand, said: "I give thee the name of Khair-ul-Nissa, Fairest of Women." Then he sat down with his convert to a grilled chop & boiled potato. When Daughter Gladys of the late Sir Walter Palmer (Huntley & Palmers) married His Highness the Tuan Muda Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke, brother and heir presumptive of the Raja of Sarawak,* in 1904 she was a Protestant. Later she became a Christian Scientist, then a Catholic. Owner of the tunic of Mohammed himself (valued at $1,750,000), she decided to embrace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

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