Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Origin of the Grove plays goes back to one Joseph D. Redding, San Francisco attorney who died last year. He proposed and wrote the first play, The Man of the Forest. In 1911 his Natoma was set to music by Victor Herbert, produced in Philadelphia with Mary Garden and John McCormack.' The best western composers have contributed scores for the Grove plays and Bohemians aver that much beautiful music is thereby lost to the world, as the plays are seldom given public performance...
...front of the pier a square expanse of water was kept severely clear by patrol boats. Against its boundaries pressed a cluster of excursion boats, yachts, freighters, runabouts, canoes. Everywhere on shore the red, white & green of Italy fluttered overhead. Peddlers hawked pictures of Benito Mussolini, of King Victor Emanuel, of Italo Balbo...
Bristling with American Legion pins. William Edward ("Bill") Easterwood Jr., big breezy Texan and vice-commander of the Legion, was in Rome last week. He called on Italy's King Victor Emanuel and Premier Benito Mussolini, afterwards confided to the Press: "Premier Mussolini asked for the pin I wore on my hat and I pinned it on his lapel. I offered the King the one I had on my coat and pinned it on his lapel. He said he was very proud to wear it." Thus Vice-Commander Eas terwood thought he had made Italy's King...
...fast as cable wires could hum. Legion National Commander Louis Arthur Johnson rebuked Easterwood: "Constitution prohibits honorary memberships in American Legion. Please govern yourself accordingly." Undaunted, Easterwood invited King Victor Emanuel to address the Legion's October convention in Chicago by radio, told him the Legion's 1936 convention would probably be held in Rome. The King gave Easterwood his warm, rabbit-toothed smile. Said Legion ary Easterwood of his new friends: "They both are war veterans of a country allied with us in the World War, and they have a right to wear the buttons...
...nearest-yet imitation of human vision appeared at Chicago last week when Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin of RCA Victor Co., one of the nation's foremost practical physicists, presented his iconoscope to the Institute of Radio Engineers. The iconoscope or "image observer" is for television use when John Citizen can afford that diversion...