Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finished The Green Pastures, he took it to Producer Jed Harris. Producer Harris was busy with Uncle Vanya (TIME, April 21, 1930). Producer Crosby Gaige also turned down the Connelly piece and the Theatre Guild would have none of it. But the play interested Rowland Stebbins, an inactive Wall Streeter who was having a fling at Broadway under the name of "Laurence Rivers." The character of "de Lawd" in Connelly's Negro miracle play pleasantly reminded music-loving Mr. Stebbins of Wagner's "Wotan." There was some difficulty about getting a theatre. The premi...
...Wall Street, month ago, a frayed old man wearing a sandwich sign picked a wallet out of the snow. The wallet contained $42,000 in negotiable securities, which 67-year-old Frank Grigoris turned over to a policeman. Overnight Frank Grigoris tasted sudden fame, saw his picture in all the newspapers, collected a reward ($100), got a new job, as messenger boy ($70 a month) at Belden & Co., the brokers who owned the wallet...
Proof that Harvard does patronize living artists is furnished in the person of Lewis William Rubenstein '30, winner of the Bacon Art Scholarship in 1930, who is now preparing a mural on the wall beside the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum...
...been lively. First married to Delphine Dodge, daughter of Motormaker Horace E. Dodge, he stepped in after his father-in-law died, persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the company to a stock-selling syndicate for $146,000,000-biggest cash sale in Wall Street history. With his fat profits from the deal, "Jimmy" Cromwell sailed into the Florida land boom, planned to build a city called "Floranada," lost his money in the collapse, lost his illusions in a deluge of lawsuits. Depression infected him with Reform. He dipped into economics, politics, finance, began...
...Height is just an optical illusion," continued this man to whom altitude means nothing. "Anyone can look out of a 20 story window, but take the wall away and no one will go within ten feet of the edge. Tack a cotton cloth along that edge and people will bravely step up to it again...