Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Labor Party was organized in July 1936 by New York leaders of John L. Lewis' and Major George Berry's nationwide Non-Partisan League who thought that Labor in the State was politically ripe for a full-fledged party of its own. In its first appearance on the ballot, it justified that expectation by polling 300,000 votes for Roosevelt and Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman. In its second appearance last week, it not only held the balance of power in New York's municipal election but helped elect Democrat Thomas F. Holling as mayor of Buffalo...
Three times Jean Spadea dissuaded her husband, for nine years an advertising salesman for Crowell's Woman's Home Companion, from launching a beauty magazine. She told him he had the publishing urge without a clear-cut editorial program. This week the Spadeas thought they had at last fused a sure-fire formula, optimistically put upon American News Co. stands 50,000 copies of You, an intimate, elaborate 50? guidebook to female beauty. A quarterly, because female camouflage veers with the four seasons, You will strive to tell women how to be comely-how to pick a coiffure...
Beautiful, blonde twins, devoted to each other and the ballet, Elisabeth and Annemarie are otherwise very different. Ambitious Elisabeth leaves home, becomes a ballet dancer, marries and divorces a rich nobleman, who thought her hard work as indecent as her scanty costumes. Then she becomes involved with a dope fiend who is a composer. When their mother dies, sweet-tempered Annemarie reluctantly joins her sister on the stage. As the Sisters Vernova they dazzle the world. Still unspoiled, Annemarie goes to pieces on a U. S. tour, but a marriage resigns her to her ruined career. Elisabeth, momentarily depressed, sails...
Pianist Monath collaborated with Ira Hirschmann from the founding of the New Friends, last week was about to become his bride. The programs which she planned for him last year bore heavily on Brahms, emphasized the evolution of Beethoven's musical thought, showed the place of the piano in chamber music. In planning this year's programs, Pianist Monath performed the notable feat of reading through the massive tome, Chronologisch-systematisches Verzeichnis sammtlicher Tonwerke Mozarts, by Dr. Ludwig Ritter von Kochel, who patiently numbered each & every one of Mozart's voluminous works. She emerged with such rarities...
Died. Winthrop Ames, 66, scholarly, devoted theatrical producer; of pneumonia; in Boston. At 7, Winthrop Ames thought H.M.S. Pinafore, newly come to Boston, a grand show. His father thought otherwise, declined an opportunity to invest in it. failed to share in the $1,000,000 the operetta reputedly earned. The theatre finally claimed him in 1004, first Boston's Castle Square, then Manhattan's ambitious, repertory New Theatre. He built the Little and Booth Theatres, headed a producers' committee to purge the stage of filth, helped rescue Gilbert and Sullivan operetta from the hands of school children...