Word: wagner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other Washingtonians faced the embarrassment in various ways. New York's Laborite Senator Wagner fled from the picket-bound Shoreham to Manhattan. Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, C. I. 0. Vice Presidents Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray moved out of the Carlton, Mrs. Mordecai Ezekiel (whose husband is economist in the Department of Agriculture) picketed in evening dress. SECommissioner Jerome Frank stayed on at the Wardman Park Hotel and Senator & Mrs. Millard Tydings at the Shoreham. Those who passed the Mayflower picket line included the Bankheads (Senator & Speaker), Senators J. Hamilton Lewis, Carter Glass, Walter George, Arthur Capper, Clyde Herring, Kenneth...
...also was the suggestion that 65-year-old, weighty (216-lb.) Alexander Fell Whitney might become the overall head of U. S. Labor. White-topped, lively Mr. Whitney runs his rich Brotherhood with iron hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no great love for David Robertson whom John Lewis also suggested for the biggest job U. S. Labor could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with...
...George Cohan variety has always been a box-office standby, but the cinema's new patriotism goes deeper into the last refuge. It stems from: i) a sudden awareness that in failing to capitalize the forces which produced the New Deal, John L. Lewis and the Wagner Act, the cinema has missed a golden opportunity; and 2) the general eagerness of producers to forestall a wave of U. S. antiSemitism, which they greatly dread...
...greatest mechanical labors required of the stage. The four full-length Ring operas lasted a total of 14 hours, required 18 complete changes of scene, 34 major singers, a large chorus, 80 stage hands and technicians, an orchestra of 114, ten full beards, one horse. Richard Wagner's masterpiece contains practically every theatrical trick except Eliza crossing the ice-swimming Rhine maidens, a roaring dragon, a rainbow, galloping Valkyries, a Nibelung forge going full tilt, quantities of magic fire, and, at the end, the collapse in fire and flood of a castle full of gods...
...this was revolutionary theatre when, in the 18705, Wagner's Bayreuth Festspielhaus was built to mount it properly. It is no longer revolutionary, for the Metropolitan, like the Festspielhaus, is hidebound by the Ring tradition that not a hair of Wotan's beard must be altered, not a comma of Wagner's copious stage directions deleted...