Word: magically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walkure there were not the usual nine but 17 Valkyries galloping over the mountain. Brünnehilde's eight new sisters were given made-up. Wagnerian-sounding names like "Ritthelle." "Kampfsiege," "Trautschilde." There were real gas flames, 10 to 40 ft. high, for the Magic Fire scene. In Die Walküre sang Soprano Elsa Alsen, Basso Fred Patton. Tenor Georg Fassnacht Jr. from the Freiburg Passion Play. In Aïda were Tenor Paul Althouse, Soprano Gina Pinnera...
...President David A. Crawford of Pullman Co.; Chairman James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; Charles Glore of Field, Glore & Co.; President Robert E. Wood of Sears Roebuck & Co. Chosen as chairman was Sewell Lee Avery, able president of U. S. Gypsum Co. and of Montgomery Ward. "I have no magic in my briefcase and no rabbit in my hat," said Secretary Mills. The first week's experience of the new Manhattan committee suggested that other hats and briefcases were in like condition...
...Rolla France) into the phonograph factory, is herded into line, disrupts the phonograph-assembling routine with his fumbling individualism, finally confronts the phonograph tycoon, his old convict pal, disrupting also his routine. The plot now begins to spin like a pinwheel. Blackmailers, a love interest, the police, a fabulous Magic Park for lovers, a lost suitcase with the tycoon's fortune, make a buoyant arrangement in nonsense, ending with a ceremony to celebrate the factory's wiring for entire mechanization, no humans required. A high wind is blowing, silk hats teeter, the police are closing...
...expected to be in evidence. The program will be as follows: "Charge of the Light Bridge," Spindler; "Invitation to the Dance," Webber-Berlioz; "Pianoforte Solo" (Selected by Mr. Jesus Maria Sanroma); "Overture to William Tell," Rossini; "S Kommt ein Vogel Geflogen," by Ochs; "News Flashes of the Ninties," Magic Lantern; "Jolly Fellow Walz," Vollstedt; "The Fortune Teller," Herbert; "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep," Knight; popular song hits (Tara-ra-Boom-de-ay. The Bowery, The Sidewalks of New York, Sweet Rosie O'Grady, Daisy Bell, A Bicycle Built for Two, Comrades, Little Annie Rooney, She May Have Seen...
...Author Stong was noted for hay-pitching and hog-calling in his youth, became a journalist later on. He foundered with the New York World when it went down, landed in an advertising agency (Young & Rubicam). The unusual native charm of his State Fair is achieved less by literary magic than by his hometown knowledge of the farmer-philosopher civilization indigenous to Iowa. Says he: "I was an lowan for 17 years. Once in a while they commit suicide or there's a baby the village hadn't expected. But take the run of them and they're pretty good...