Word: sunday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smallman A Cappella Choir, which rendered a program at Jordan Hall Sunday, is native to the State of California, and, to emphasize this fact, is dressed in bright costumes of Spanish origin, which are not particularly appropriate to the occasion or the program. With a few changes to a less jarring and more dignified color scheme this element of the entertainment could be made an organic and pleasing part of the performance...
Birthday. Mme. Marie Sklodowska Curie, co-discoverer (with her late husband) of radium; in Manhattan. Age: 62. She celebrated by: 1) Receiving callers at the home of her longtime friend Mrs. William Brown Meloney, editor of the Sunday magazine section of the New'York Herald Tribune. Daniel Guggenheim and Nicholas Frederic Brady sent flowers. 2) Inspecting John Pierpont Morgan's famed library. 3) Dining with her great & good friends, the Owen D. Youngs. Next day she sailed for home on the lie de France with Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone, Archbishop Nicholas of Serbia, Publisher George Palmer Putnam and Cinemactresses Pola...
...orchestra exists unaided by great-hearted guarantors and, miraculously, without deficit. Last week the Lincoln players gave the first concert of their fourth season. Again Rudolph Seidl, onetime oboist in the Minneapolis Symphony, conducted his 40 colleagues, all of whom receive union wages. Again there will be given four Sunday afternoon concerts sponsored by the junior division of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce...
Catholic Hour. At the meeting of the U. S. Hierarchy it was announced that the National Broadcasting Co. had offered to give Roman Catholicism one hour on the U. S. ether each & every Sunday. The Hierarchy voted to accept this gift, calling upon the National Council of Catholic Men (Admiral William S. Benson, president) for $75,000 to pay for the programs...
...neophyte panting to remake the newspaper world was Editor Weitzenkorn. At 16, as a cub reporter on the Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times-Leader, he had begun a long journalistic stint. He had worked on the New York Times, the Tribune, the Call, the World. When he was Sunday editor of the World, Editor Weitzenkorn saw some funny Yiddish dialect by one of his cartoonists. Colleagues said nobody outside The Bronx would understand it but Editor Weitzenkorn printed and let millions laugh at Milt Gross's "Nize Baby...