Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theatre Project, it had spent $1,468,365 producing 27 plays, many of them flops. Congressman Taber of New York called "putrid" a bit in Sing For Your Supper where an old man appears and sings, "I don't wanna be intellectual. I wanna be sexual...
...year everyone was fascinated by a new craze called crossword puzzles -Jack Dempsey was World's Heavyweight Champion, What Price Glory was playing on Broadway, and Ty Cobb was still in his prime - when Manager Miller Huggins of the New York Yankees, one fine day in June 1925, stepped up to a clumsy, rosy-cheeked rookie his scouts had picked up on the Columbia campus. "Gehrig," he muttered, "you take Wally Pipp's place at first base today." Last week, for the first time since that faraway day, the Yankees started a game without Lou Gehrig...
...days later Barrymore filed suit in New York's Supreme Court for a separation from his wife. He also demanded from his wife, her mother, Mrs. Edna Jacobs, and their "confidential adviser" an accounting of $300,000 of his funds which he alleges they secured from him in money and property over a course of time. At week's end the defendants had not filed an answer to either suit...
When plans for the New York World's Fair 1939 got under way, sharp little Billy Rose's nose smelt business. He was an old nose at Fairs: in 1936, when Dallas, Texas opened its resplendent Texas Centennial, Billy smartly staged a rival Centennial at Fort Worth, stole the limelight and the crowds. Smart again a year later, he mopped up in Cleveland. Smart once more, for New York's monster shindig Billy Rose took over the Fair's huge marine amphitheatre, announced an elaborate amphibian revue. Last week Rose unveiled his water lilies...
...Valentina Pavlovna Wasson of New York City has two adopted children. Like most foster parents, she fretted about telling her children that they were adopted. She finally solved her problem by doing a picture book for them about a Man and His Wife who were "happily married for many years. Their one trouble was that they had no babies of their own." The care they take in selecting a baby and the care the orphanage takes in checking on the foster parents-even peeking under their beds for dust (see cut)-are all described so as to reassure the children...