Word: urban
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peter Ibbetson will have more arias than The King's Henchman and a great deal of choral singing. Two orchestras will be used, one in the pit, and one. during several scenes, on stage. Settings have been designed by famed Joseph Urban...
...find an excellent example of every style of architecture known to man within 50 miles of New York. Until last week, however, the questing art student could not have found a proper Hans Andersen Gingerbread House. This omission has been rectified through a union of the talents of Joseph Urban, globular Viennese Architect and stage setter, and the enthusiasm of Fred H. Bennett, whole-wheat flour man ("Wheatsworth" crackers...
...last week. "My eye was taken by the quaint fantastic fairyland gingerbread house on the stage. The thought struck me, 'just the thing!' Something like that for the children on the old cement kiln across the courtyard from the mill. I went to see the decorator Joseph Urban who designs the stage settings for the Metropolitan Opera, and he's been hard at work on this Gingerbread House of mine for two years. It cost $50,000, but if it brings the children and their mothers, it's well worth...
...could not promise a tariff on wheat, he said, for every farmer must know that the urban electorate would vote down such a measure. But when the Conservative Party returned to power he would guarantee the farmer a fair price for wheat, "a price sufficient to enable wheat to be produced remuneratively on ordinary lines...
...take a "gyp" taxi (one charging more than the minimum fare) for a long ride. Then he rents an oversized apartment and proceeds to enjoy his life. The record of his adventures makes lively if not edifying reading, contains many a pungently satirical comment on U. S. urban and suburban life. Sometimes Authors Perelman and Reynolds call a spade by its trade name. Says a Manhattan newspaperman, complaining as is the custom of newspapermen: "Some business. Work for the Telegram, there's a paper. When you're fifty-five and you've been there twenty years, they...