Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Take a Chance"--Apollo, 42nd Street--A regular rollicking Broadway musical comedy. Excellent dialogue from Jack Haley and Sid Silvers, and silver notes from Ethel Merman. A sure...
...British fighting pursuit plane, equipped for service, has a ceiling of 28,000 ft. Pilot Unwins had to wait until his barograph was recalibrated to the barometric pressure prevailing that day before his record would be official. Present plane altitude record of 43,166 ft. was set by Lieut. Apollo Soucek, U. S. N. in 1930. Wearing electrically-heated goggles. gloves, shoes and clothing. Pilot Unwins encountered a temperature of 68° below zero. He was equipped with oxygen breathing apparatus. At the top of his climb the gasoline ran out. Pilot Unwins volplaned safely to a ploughed field...
...Penrose's more respectable pastimes was giving houseparties on his yacht to fellow-legislators and lady friends. On one occasion Penrose emerged on deck completely ready for a swim. A lady screamed at the sight. "Madame," said Senator Penrose, "I grant that mine is not the form of Apollo, but it is too late for either of us to do anything about that. But if I present what to you are strange or unfamiliar phenomena, it is you who should be ashamed, not I." The rise of Philadelphia's Vare brothers worried Penrose's declining years; more...
...donor of the fresco. William L. Gerstle. A modest little man in a derby hat. Mr. Gerstle appears to be awaiting the news that the architects have not been able to keep inside the original estimates. Rich Mr. Gerstle is president of the San Francisco Art Association, also of Apollo Consolidated Mining Co. and of Alaska Commercial...
...informed, female entertainers were celebrating the liberty of the Republic by dancing in the raw. Po licemen looking strangely British in scarlet tunics and blue helmets, swooped down on the Moulin Rouge and the Royal Concert.* There was no objection until word was passed that two rival establishments, the Apollo and Pompeii, were undisturbed. Managers, customers, girls and waiters went out to battle. Beer bottles crashed through the windows. Heavy saucers hummed through the air. An Andalusian blonde was felled by one on her ear. One of the attacking Amazons had her hip gashed by a seltzer bottle...