Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Production difficulties for the Gershwin opera have been to teach the Harlem Negroes a Southern accent, to drill by ear those who were unable to read a note, to help some members of the cast decide on names which will look imposing in the program. Great advantage has been the fact that none of the singers was handicapped at the start by having real grand opera ways. The principals, Porgy and Bess, have never sung on the stage before. Bess is one Anne Browne, a product of the Juilliard School of Music. Porgy is Todd Duncan, a Gershwin discovery from...
...President Holmes, being the less rugged, was forced out in 1933. To make the break less apparent Charles Bismark Ames was made board chairman, allowed to run the company until he died last month. Last week, when Torkild Rieber, who wears rough brown suits and still speaks with an accent, assumed the chairmanship in Manhattan, it was merely to become Texaco's strong man in name as well as in fact...
Catholics, Bolsheviks & Calvinist. The moneyed Queen was credited by many of her subjects with taking Professor Aalberse neatly into camp and preserving her money on gold by the following maneuver: Her favorite statesman, ruthless, eagle-beaked Premier Hendrikus Colijn, who speaks English with a crusty Scottish accent, suddenly announced that he was not receiving adequate support from the Catholic members of his coalition, abruptly resigned. Thus ambitious Professor Aalberse was confronted with a surprise opportunity to form a Cabinet before his Catholics had time to organize a coalition. It turned out that Professor Aalberse would have to take five Communist...
Perky, wiry Theodore Metz, 87, occupies a desk in the Manhattan offices of Edward B. Marks Music Corp. He speaks with a thick German accent, looks like an oldtime German music master with his white mustache, flowing necktie and fusty frock coat. Puttering about in the music business, Theodore Metz began last week to celebrate-a little ahead of time-the 50th anniversary of the composition of his No. 1 song, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
Civilized entertainment. Accent on Youth should please practically every class of U. S. cinema-seers except students or graduates of Princeton University. Good shot: Marshall's butler (Ernest Cossart) perfectly executing three difficult billiard shots which are photographed with out any faking...