Word: anna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...private pleasure and the public's good, Conductor van Hoogstraten with the aid of Music Critic Lawrence Gilman, has arranged a longer-than-ever list of special features. Old favorites: The Hall Johnson Negro Choir, Anna Duncan, the Denishawns, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in B-flat. Innovations: George Gershwin's "An American in Paris,'' Deems Taylor's "Jurgen," Edward Burlingame Hill's Symphony in B Flat, Ernest Bloch's rhapsody "America" (with 500-voice chorus). Albert Coates of London, as guest conductor during August, has promised his own Scherzo from The Pickwick...
With two big girl-shows opening in Manhattan last week (see col. 1) moralists hurried as usual to see them, to make sure they were not indecent. Historians reflected. Twenty years ago Producer Florenz Ziegfeld presented Miss Innocence, with the late Anna Held (milk baths). Of it Theatre Magazine said: ". . . Bare legs and suggestive humor . . . sheath gowns [padlocked] to nothing at all." Also in 1909, famed Composer Richard Strauss's Selome was sung and danced by Mary Garden. Spurred by this event, Publisher Condé Nast's newly-acquired feminine smartchart Vogue editorialized...
Such were the problems and exercises suggested last week by the U. S. Prohibition Bureau in a broad plan for teaching school children throughout the land "the facts of Prohibition." To collect and disseminate "the facts" Congress had appropriated $50,000. To Miss Anna B. Sutter, Chief of the Prohibition Bureau's Division of Statistics and Education, fell this money and she it was who prepared a course of Prohibition instruction to be placed in all schools. Much to Miss Sutler's chagrin the Government's venture into pedagogy was short-lived...
When the S. S. Leviathan docked last week the inspectors, bristling with success, sprang at 32 trunks belonging to four women, Mrs. Anna Loeb (mother of Murderer Richard Loeb) and three relatives. The Loeb ladies declared only $800 worth of foreign purchases. The Inspectors found enough frocks, gowns, fur coats and jewelry to require duties and penalties...
Russell Sage College (Troy, N. Y.) Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, New York's Governor's wife L.H.D. Eliza Kellas, Emma Willard School principal LL.D...