Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jackson Whitlow took to his bed. Last week, when he passed his 50th day of fasting (but drinking water), his 137 Ibs. had wasted to 97, his intestines were bleeding and two doctors who vainly urged him to eat predicted he would die anyway. Someone wrote him a postcard...
Because he had written it expressly for the American Ballet, people took most interest in Stravinsky's The Card Party. Irene Sharaff's clever set represented a gaming table in perspective. Upon this table dancers costumed like cards appeared. While they were shuffled, the orchestra played a little processional. The choreography was strict and classical. Group dances, solos, finales showed the cards being played according to Hoyle. William Dollar, a slippery, mischievous Joker, upset calculations, spoiled the most promising hands, was routed finally by a Royal Flush. When the last strains of music had died away, the audience...
...Opera asked him to be its first violin. Two years later he lit out of Russia, went to Manhattan, placed first in a contest of 500 violinists and got a chance to solo with the Philharmonic. Walter Damrosch made Mischakoff concertmaster of the New York Symphony, now defunct. Stokowski took him to Philadelphia, whence Frederick Stock got him for Chicago...
...graduated to a dinner show in Tait's famed San Francisco restaurant. Fanchon & Marco embellished their act with other specialties, began to play theatre dates in their spare time. When the demand grew they organized a second company, coalesced their troupe in a musical show Sunkist which they took to Broadway. Two weeks later the Southern Pacific Railroad accepted Marco's note for $2,800 to transport the company back to San Francisco. The note was paid out of profits from the original San Francisco units. Soon the S. P. was transporting Fanchon & Marco's show...
...school. His immortal longings were not bounded by the farm's horizon: he was determined to better not only himself but the world. At 19 he left home to find himself and make his fortune, went as a pedlar of Yankee notions into the South. The hospitable Southerners took him in, taught him manners, lent him books. Commercially, his trips were a signal failure: when he stopped peddling to take up schoolteaching he owed his hard-pressed father $600. But he had learned more than any college could have taught...