Word: julius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Finnish Composer Jean Julius Christian Sibelius refused offers of haven all over Europe, said he would sit tight at his Ainola estate near Helsinki. Finnish Runner Paavo Nurmi taped the windows of his Helsinki sporting goods shop, went ofi to enlist as a chauffeur. Finnish Author Frans Eemil Sillanpda, his seven offspring at his heels, left for Stockholm to receive his Nobel Prize for literature. Unable to stand drinks en route, Author Sillanpaa excused himself: "It's a little awkward at the moment but I'll soon have some money...
...tabloid Julius Caesar is a hit; so is a marathon Hamlet. A romantic play-Romeo and Juliet-starring Katharine Cornell, does well enough; a largely rhetorical one-King Richard II-starring a then not well-known Maurice Evans, does far better. Hamlet, with John Gielgud, then no name on Broadway, goes over big; with Leslie Howard, a big Broadway name, flops. Tallulah Bankhead cannot last a week in Antony and Cleopatra, Walter Huston cannot last a month in Othello. The simplest answer is almost certainly right: Shakespeare is as popular as his performance...
Wisconsin's Governor Julius Peter ("Julius the Bust") Heil, who has not made a notable success of governing his own State, astonished the nation by implicitly criticizing his neighbor, Michigan's good-godly Governor Luren Dickinson. Referring to the Chrysler automobile workers' strike, Governor Heil declared: "You've got to use strong methods. I would like to be the Governor of Michigan today...
Heil Co. (President, Wisconsin's Governor Julius ["The Just"] Heil): tank trailers built rigidly enough so that no supporting frame is necessary to hold up their bellies; hydraulic dump trailer for ten-wheel gravel hauling units...
...Died. Julius Forstmann, 68, wool dynast (board chairman of Forstmann Woolen Co.); after long illness; in Manhattan. Belonging to the fourth generation of a woolen family, he early left his native Germany, started a new business in Passaic, N. J. During World War I he told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that Army uniform specifications reeked, drew up new specifications, still in use, thereby won the Certificate of Distinguished Service from a grateful administration. In 1928 Krupp built him the Orion, then largest yacht afloat (333 ft.), and he began making periodic trips around the world, conducting his business...