Word: backes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second show, the band went back to the sweet and swoony, and it was lucky they did. The Chicago Herald & Examiner's redoubtable Critic Ashton Stevens covered the performance, closed his review with the line that, for dancers, has identified Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians through two decades: "The sweetest music this side of heaven." Probably because Guy has kept it the same old sweet and danceable way ever since, he has survived-while ripplers, swingsters, hoppers and scoffers who called him the "King of Corn" fell by the wayside. And because he survived, and earned a reputation...
With 1,687 performances in 75 different roles at the Met to think back on (his most famed role: Mephistopheles in Faust), zestful, white-haired Basso Rothier had no fears about his anniversary recital. He was somewhat excited: "All my friends will be there to hear me and I will feel so at home there. My voice is still very good, you know, but it can't compare with the golden voice I once...
Safety Screen. All sorts of things can go wrong with a rocket. It rises almost vertically at first, and is put on its course by pre-set gyroscopic instruments. When the instruments do not work just right, the rocket may dive to the ground, fly horizontally, or circle back with blood in its eye toward the launching platform. At least six of White Sands's rockets have circled. One missed the control blockhouse by only about 600 feet...
Attenuated Women. When Alfred came home in 1914, his father was horrified by his son's radical ideas and strangely colored landscapes, exiled him to a tiny back bedroom in the family's Manhattan brownstone. There, earnest, hard-working Alfred Maurer painted the attenuated young women with bedroom eyes, the wraiths of young shop girls and waitresses whom he met on inexpensive summer vacations up the Hudson. There, above the Victorian opulence of his father's rooms, he brooded over the composition of abstractions such as George Washington...
...abstractions had brought him general recognition as a pioneer in modern U.S. art. But for Alfred Maurer himself, the recognition came too late. In 1932, after he was past 100, Louis Maurer died and Alfred moved down from his crowded back room to his father's large, airy quarters. In two weeks, apparently overwhelmed by a sense of failure and loneliness, he went back to his hall bedroom and hanged himself...