Word: antone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dead. Once in a while it comes true. Last week in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall an audience acclaimed a composer who died in 1896, is still virtually unknown to the musical public, and is regarded by many sincere partisans as Beethoven's symphonic equal. His name: Joseph Anton Bruckner...
...Cherry Orchard (translated from the Russian of Anton Chekhov by Irina Skariatina; produced by Carly Wharton and Margaret Webster) is usually considered Chekhov's masterpiece. To some people it may seem, with the passage of time, to have rather more aura than substance, to offer only a picture of impotent wills where Chekhov's The Three Sisters makes a drama of them. But certainly, with its gallery of weak, foolish, charming aristocrats, The Cherry Orchard has a fragrance and touching gaiety to be found in no other Chekhov play...
Royalist Count Anton Sigray solemnly assured the docile Parliament that the Hungarian State had always been based on democratic principles, always pursued a democratic policy "in the best meaning of the word. The Hungarian kingdom must be restored," he added amid cheers. "Restoration would bring about a solidification and pacification ... of the whole southeastern European sphere...
Somerset Maugham anticipated another theatrical version of his 22-year-old story Miss Thompson, which became Rain. Coming to Broadway was a fancy edition called Sadie Thompson, "with book and lyrics supplied by Howard Dietz and tunes by Vernon Duke. . . . Anton Tudor will direct the dances and plans to utilize a Polynesian chorus in addition to a corps de ballet...
...Taylor Hess '47 discovered the body floating in the river across from Weld Boat House. Three men stationed in the A.S.T. unit here succeeded in removing the corpse from the water after they had been summoned for help by Hess. They were Cpl. Anton A. Cedewall, Pfe. Robert Cote, and Pfe. Sidney Simons, all quartered at Leverett House...