Filipino cuisine (1929); Horse Opera (1923); Ivy League (1935)

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FILIPINO CUISINE

   The LOS ANGELES TIMES now appears to be up to July 1938.
   There are some "Oscar" citations, but no explanation.
   I've been searching for Pacific cuisine (Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian, Filipino, Vietnamese).  It'll get a lot better in the next 30 years...Where is my "Zombie"?  (A Hawaiian/San Francisco drink, made popular at the 1939 New York World's Fair.)


      LEE SIDE o'L.A.
       Lee Shippey.       Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los Angeles, Calif.: Dec 6, 1929.                   p. A4 (1 page) :
   The menu included pansit, sarciadong manoks, trotillang hipon, adobong baboy, asadang baboy, all names which no Spaniard or Mexican could be expected to translate.  They were the Filipino names for noodles, Filipino style; spring chicken with sauce, shrimp omelet, pork with seasoned sauce and pork chops, Filipino style.  Rice was served instead of bread or tortillas, the latter being little known in the Philippines.

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HORSE OPERA

   OED has 1927 for "horse opera," meaning "western" motion picture.  Someone swiped the RHHDAS H-O here at NYU, and I hope it wasn't that "best lexicographer" guy.


      FLASHES
       Grace Kingsley.       Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los Angeles, Calif.: Feb 6, 1923.                   p. II11 (1 page):
      Colin Campbell is about to start work on "The Grail," a new Fox feature, which promises to rival "The Spoilers," which Campbell made some sever years ago, and which is again to be done by Hampton.
   "'The Grail' is a western story," explained Mr. Campbell, the other day, "but it isn't a 'horse opera.'  It is a very big, human story."

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IVY LEAGUE

   Another 1935 citation.


      Bill Henry Says
              Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File).       Los Angeles, Calif.: May 11, 1935.                   p. 7 (1 page):
      DETERMINED to have at least one big track meet in the East in which some rude California college won't gallop away with the championship the newly organized and appropriately named Ivy League holds a matinee on the sacred sward of Princeton today.  Historic institutions represented are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell and Dartmouth, which are already organized in basketball and baseball.


(OT:  Yankees win.  I hope it's not too late to wish them "good luck.")