Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, Harry Truman signed the Housing and Rent Act of 1947. Said he: "It is clear that, insofar as the Congress is concerned, it is this bill or no rent control at all." The bill; which continues rent controls to Feb. 29, 1948, will permit "voluntary" 15% rent increases if leases are signed which extend through...
...Massenet's Thaïs, 33-year-old Edis, trained in the bel canto tradition, revealed a good dramatic soprano voice, whose only major flaw was an occasional dry, pingless top note. She also knew how to act, and her trim figure, revealed for the seduction of the monk Athanaël in the first act, made Paris audiences forget all the baggy Thaïses they had ever seen. Many a Frenchman (including Composer Massenet's nephew, Pierre) was reminded, in Edis' best moments, of an earlier Thaïs, Mary Garden. The comparison was appropriate...
...performance to deter anyone with a less unrelenting ambition. In the heat and humidity, the Opéra-Comique's production of La Traviata was so languid that it threatened to expire with each bar. The tenor bleated woefully and the rest of the cast missed cues and acted with the decisiveness of a group of tourists lost in the sewers of Paris. Nor did it help that Edis sang the role of Violetta in Italian and the rest of the cast sang in French. During the first act she tried to wake up the rest; her voice spread...
...Decent People. Beaten Milt Murray declined to be renominated, and got loud applause for saying: "There has been some pretty vicious politics . . . and I contributed my share. We've fought like a bunch of goddam kids. Let's see if we can't grow up and act like decent people...
...British Workmen's Compensation Act recognizes writer's cramp as a compensable disease under "Dangerous Trades"; in the U.S., where the disorder has no such official standing, it is comparatively rare...