Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Salome was revived at the Met, with buxom Australian-born Marjorie Lawrence in the role of Strauss's necrophilic heroine. Soprano Lawrence, who had been coached by Japanese Dancer Nimura, peeled herself like a true Judean temptress, ended unabashed in nothing much but a black net. Solemn music critics agreed that Lawrence was both vocally and visually one of the most lavishly endowed of all Salomes...
...company was fast. Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm and Henner Henkel, U. S. doubles champions, were ending a barnstorming tour of Australia that had been preceded by a barnstorming tour of Japan. Donald Budge and Gene Mako, All-England doubles champions, were winding up a two-month Australian series of exhibitions and competitions...
Last summer, however, the Australian Lawn Tennis Association prevailed upon U. S. tennis bigwigs to permit Donald Budge, champion of the U. S. and England, to visit Australia. The Australians frankly wanted Champion Budge, a great one for form, to be seen and perhaps imitated by up & coming Australian tennists, of whom there are many. The U. S. L. T. A., feeling that Donald Budge could stand the gaff, acquiesced...
Coming out for the semi-finals of the Australian Singles last week, Donald Budge had thus far justified his compatriots' if not his hosts' faith in him. After two months of this & that, during which he had dropped four matches (two to Baron von Cramm and two to Australia's Jack Bromwich) and irritated Australian tennis fans by his lackadaisical performance, Champion Budge had demonstrated that, although he is no superhuman tennis machine, he is still the best amateur tennist in the world. At Adelaide he had reached the semi-finals without losing...
...South Australian) this season. Budge took just three sets to turn out a carbon copy of what he had done the previous month in the Victoria championship (fourth major state championship): beat Australia's No. i hope for this year's Davis Cup recovery...