Word: torch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the huge Olympic Coliseum, with its three flagpoles, 105,000 seats and Olympic torch, the scene of the Xth Olympiad shifted last week to the 50-metre Olympic swimming pool, where 10,000 spectators with Japanese parasols sat in a small concrete stadium looking down at a narrow block of pale green water...
...heir of the Camel cigaret fortune, gave a small birthday party for a friend at "Reynolda," the family's 600-acre estate at Winston-Salem, N. C. Hostess to a dozen guests was his bride of seven months, 26-year-old Elsbeth ("Libby") Holman Reynolds, shapely, olive-skinned "torch singer" of Broadway musical shows. Also on hand was Albert ("Ab") Walker, 19, athletic son of a local realtor. Smith Reynolds' friend and "secretary...
...crowd of 70,000 waiting in the stadium, where the Olympic torch flared enormously against a dark sky, heard a trumpet blast as the first runner came into the chute for the finish. They recognized Zabala, tired but still running strongly. A hundred yards behind him was Samuel Ferris of England. Armas Toivonen of Finland and Wright were in the stadium also by the time Zabala, a small solemn figure jogging steadily through an uproar of cheers and trumpets, reached the finish. It was the closest marathon in Olympic history and the fastest?...
Scrap Book contains a burlesque of East Lynne, a scene from King John, bits from Pagliacci and Carmen, a radio sketch, a musicomedy sketch, a torch singer, several other singers, three masters of ceremonies (one male, one female, one indeterminate), a Florodora act, etc., etc. Best act by far is a burlesque sketch in which Mae Dix, onetime Minsky burlesque girl, becomes drunk, disrobes, does strange things with her famed indiarubberlike stomach. Dorothy MacDonald also disrobes, more teasingly. At the beginning of the burlesque sketch, members of the claque run up & down the aisles selling "Feelthy pictures, feelthy pictures, Martha...
...trumpeters on a turret above the stadium blew a loud salute. Outside the stadium, a field gun went off ten times. From an urn over the main gate of the stadium there was a burst of flame, pale in the bright afternoon, from the Olympic torch that will burn for 16 days...