Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ballet Master Massine travels this year, as he did last, in a trailer attached to his powerful Lincoln car, keeps his own chef who feeds him Russian food. Massine made trouble in Los Angeles as a result of a soft-hearted moment in Vancouver where he adopted a stray dog gazing at him through a restaurant window. The creature became so devoted to Massine that he followed him on stage at a Los Angeles performance...
...Elmer Rice, who wrote Street Scene in 1928. Failing to repeat that phenomenal success, Mr. Rice has become "progressively disenchanted" with the theatre. It was his idea that out of the piteous plight of his down-at-heel mummers might arise the beginnings of a State Theatre. The chef d'oeuvre of Director Rice's regime was a dramatized newsreel called Ethiopia. When WPA headquarters in Washington learned about Ethiopia the production was hastily canceled as a "dramatization which may affect our international relations." Mr. Rice's disenchantment was complete. Crying that "freedom of expression" had been...
...medical men officially appertaining to the Royal Family, a half dozen of the more prominent were in attendance, but George V ordered hastily summoned from Buckingham Palace his favorite chef, designating his adept maker of strengthening broths and gruels as ''that fellow who saved my life...
...Clough, the Leverett head waitress, has for some years been a regular diner at Liggett's. After work, Eliot House's chef regularly stops b HayesBickford's for his oyster stew. The Adams House kitchen is often thrown out of its stride while the cook goes out for dinner...
Director Geiger thrilled the city by suggesting a mass murder plot. Likeliest suspect was a Chicago chef who in 1912, at a banquet for Cardinal Mundelein, put arsenic in the soup of 1,000 guests, killed several, sickened hundreds. Indicted for murder, the chef escaped, has since been accused of two other mass poisonings by arsenic. A New York chemist made San Francisco's mystery more exciting by reporting that he had found similar mixtures of arsenic and fluoride in baking soda two years ago. Director Geiger set out to investigate the cases of 30 San Franciscans...