Word: unknowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saratoga, Hialeah, Washington Park and Arlington Park. Whether the proposed track will be ready for the 1940 spring meeting is problematical. The fate of the Widener Chute, also unpopular with railbirds because the horses start almost a mile from the stands and finish at an angle, is as yet unknown...
...after a tiff with the Met's management, Artur Bodanzky. still a Wagnerian conductor, resigned to conduct symphonies for Manhattan's Friends of Music. Said he: "I shall not say I am sorry to give up opera." To replace him the Metropolitan imported an unknown named Josef Rosenstock. After five of Rosenstock's feeble exhibitions of batonistic piddle-paddle, Manhattan critics howled him down, sent him scurrying back where he came from. General Manager Gatti-Casazza persuaded Bodanzky to return. For ten more years he went on conducting Wagnerian opera...
...public-minded businessman. Likewise it was a fine thing for G.E. to have Gerard Swope for president, because though he concentrated on operations, he went about a good deal, was on any number of boards and committees in Washington. To become such public figures G.E.'s new heads, unknown to the public, will have a long...
...arguments came last week. After his sister-in-law's shooting, he was looked on askance by many a citizen of Mound Bayou. One night last week somebody shot him from ambush. John Thomas, Mound Bayou's marshal, declared the shooting was done by persons unknown. All he knew was that Old Man Booze was dead...
...quickly warbles her way into the butler's heart by singing La-calle's Amapola, is soon a popular hit below stairs, where the servants pool their savings to buy her a party dress and silver slippers so that she can go to the great ball. There unknown Connie captures the crowd by caroling a Strauss waltz. Her handsome, horsy young host (Robert Stack) canters over and, while cinemaddicts hold their breath, gives Deanna Durbin her first kiss, which had to be shot twelve times before it was considered impeccable enough to meet the exacting standards of Durbin...