Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consolidated also prints cigar box portraits. In its files are the fat Teutonic nudes of yesteryear, who, thinly veiled in gauze, lie languorously across a wolf's skin (Wolff's Choice), or step daintily into a mountain brook (The Lone Queen), or sedately duel with rapiers in a grove (El Duelo). Today Consolidated makes its money from more prosaic designs for cigars like La Palina. La Palina was originated by Sam Paley, father of President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System. The inside of every La Palina box is adorned with a picture of Mrs. Sam Paley...
Sailors of Cattaro (by Friedrich Wolf; Theatre Union, producer). In January 1918, a section of the Austrian Imperial Fleet cowered in the Adriatic's Bay of Cattaro. Superior British warships had knocked the Austrian seamen groggy every time they ventured out to fight in their decrepit craft. Bad food, bad news, bad treatment had utterly demoralized the sailors at Cattaro. Encouraged by food riots and strikes by the War-weary proletariat ashore, the seamen mutinied. Playwright Wolf, a German Communist whom Adolf Hitler chased into Russia, has built a strapping propagandist melodrama out of the Cattaro incident. And, like...
...throne. It has been my close-stool. It has been my grave. It has been my resurrection. On the platform I have expressed by a whisper, by a silence, by a gesture, by a bow, by a leer, by a leap, by a skip, by the howl of a wolf, by the scream of a woman in travail, certain inspirations concerning the secrets of life that, without any vain boasting, I do not think have been expressed very often in this world...
...upon Otto Klemperer's reinaugural in New York [TIME, Oct. 15], didn't know the nickname members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic have for their beloved six-foot-four or so maestro. Even though the Los Angeles musicians show great love of Klemperer, he is dubbed "The Big Bad Wolf," a title which seems even more appropriate, due to his size and voice, than the excellent "O. K." adopted in New York...
...Fascist Italy's ladder of military organizations for males from 8 to 21, Benito Mussolini last week added a bottom rung for moppets between 6 and 8. Estimated enrollment: 1,500,000. Name: "Sons of the Wolf.'' The mythical founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus, were sons of War God Mars. They were suckled by a kindly she-wolf and fed by a woodpecker. Mussolini plans no "Sons of the Woodpecker...