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...birthday, Princess Aurora pricks herself on a distaff and falls sound asleep. Prince Désiré goes hunting, a Fairy shows him a vision of the sleeping Princess, he dances with her still asleep. But it takes over two hours to straighten her affairs. . . . Because it is the longest ballet ever written and one of the most elaborate, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty is seldom danced entire. The Philadelphia Ballet Company last week made musical history by giving the first U. S.*performance without...
...Good-Bye (by Philip Howard; John Golden, producer). Actor Philip Merivale is unquestionably the longest-suffering man on the U. S. stage. He suffered as the disillusioned Hannibal in The Road to Rome, he grieved as the erring husband in Cynara, he went through agonies as the betrayed Washington in Valley Forge and in Death Takes a Holiday his was the title role. In And Now Good-Bye the handsomely gaunt Englishman is once more presented as a noble and appealing character for whom things are very...
...January 1934, Navy flyers made the longest non-stop formation flight in aviation history. Patrol Squadron VP-10, consisting of six big Wright Cyclone-powered Consolidated Navy patrol flying boats and 30 officers and men, flew 2,399 mi. over the Pacific Ocean from San Fran cisco to Honolulu's Pearl Harbor...
Summoned to the White House for talks on "labor legislation" were three groups headed respectively by Mr. Lewis, President Harper Sibley of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor. The Lewis group went first, stayed longest. At a press conference the President of the U. S. voiced his extreme displeasure with the president of General Motors. Waiving his usual ban on direct quotation, as he had done in squelching Mr. Lewis, the President struck out, this time not with a mild generality but with blunt specification. Rapped he: "I told them...
...holder of Cambridge's longest John Henry speaks excellent English although he has only been in this country a year, having studied it extensively as a boy. He transferred to the Business School this year from the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania; says Harvard, strangely enough, is no harder than Penn...