Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Will Hays confirmed the Archbishop's announcement. A Presbyterian elder whose solid connections helped get him his job. Tsar Hays has long mollified church people and women's clubs with bland promises of reform...
...Tsar Will Hays asked the Russell Sage Foundation to investigate Hollywood casting agencies. The investigation showed that: the agencies charged commissions as high as 60%; there were so many of them that aspirants for cinema jobs had a hard time keeping in touch with all; applicants were often cheated, mistreated, or subjected to improper offers. In 1926, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. started the Central Casting Corp. to interview applicants for jobs three days a week, assign welfare workers to minor applicants, charge no commissions. For general manager the corporation chose an unassuming young man named...
...though doing homage to the imperial dead, French correspondents in Bucharest last week hovered around a greying count whom they called "The last Ambassador of the Tsar...
...government was that few in Sofia knew what it stood for. When Lieut.-Colonel Gueorguieff and his adherents of the Zveno Club took over the government and announced a long program of objectives, it was universally understood that the smooth coup d'etat had the silent approval of Tsar Boris. Last week an equally insistent story had it that conscientious Tsar Boris threatened to abdicate when news of the coup was brought him, was persuaded to carry on by one-time Premier Mushanoff. The ousted Mushanoff Cabinet was received last week by Tsar Boris at the palace to soothe...
...since the Bolsheviks took over Russia has there been such a musical orgy as that which began in Leningrad last week, promised to run for ten full days. Soviet Russia was having its first big music festival. Blustery Red music was played in the Tsar's old palace at Detskoye Selo, in the old Mariinsky Theatre, in the Philharmoniya concert hall and in the famed old opera house. Special excitement came when Violinist Efrem Zimbalist marked his homecoming by soloing in the Glazunov Concerto. But the festival's high mark was the Opera's performance of Prince...