Word: allan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allan Nevins edition of the diaries of James K. Polk, U. S. President, 1845-49 (up to then our youngest President; seven successive terms a Congressman; Speaker of the House; Governor of Tennessee; President at 49) are found the following entries...
Author Ernest Hemingway and William Allan Neilson, president-emeritus of Smith College, were appointed co-chairmen of the sponsoring committee to arrange the conference for Protection of Foreign Born. Keynoted Co-Chairman Neilson: "Noncitizens are being denied jobs and are being threatened with registration. More than 70 so-called anti-alien bills pending in the 76th Congress indicate the manner in which the attacks upon the freedom of the noncitizen can be used...
...audience sees that he is just able, amiable Walter Connolly dressed up to look like the composer. But few people who go to see The Great Victor Herbert will give a tenor's whoop what Victor Herbert looked like. They will want to (and will) hear Allan Jones and Mary Martin sing Victor Herbert's lilting tunes with freshness and charm...
...story, in which Victor Herbert plays fifth fiddle, concerns the unhappy marriage of a conceited tenor (Allan Jones) and his soprano protegee Louise (Mary Martin). Through years of professional jealousy, both are sustained and supported by singing Victor Herbert's music. Louise's voice gives out, her singing daughter (14-year-old Susanna Foster) takes over very creditably, despite a tendency to tail off in a musine squeak on the top notes (B flat above high...
...Great Victor Herbert is distinguished for providing Allan Jones the first film part worthy of his silken tenor. It also brings to the screen for the first time Mary Martin, glamorous Texas strip teaser, whose song, My Heart Belongs to Daddy, was the hit of the 1938 Broadway musical season. A little skinny on the stage, Miss Martin's figure is enhanced by the tendency of the camera to fill out curves...