Word: balding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composers, past and present. This autumn Manhattan's Radio City MusicHall Conductor Erno Rapee unhesitatingly undertook to broadcast Sibelius' entire set of seven symphonies. The Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra play them far oftener than the once-popular symphonies of Tchaikovsky and Cesar Franck. The great bald Finn has come into...
Last Sunday evening, Pianist Hofmann, now 61, his grey hair encircling a bald spot, his gentle face still distinguished by the cleft chin of his youth, walked upon the Metropolitan stage and 4,000 applauding people rose to their feet. It was 50 years, less a day, since he had made his debut before the U. S. public. For this Golden Jubilee concert the 4,000 had bought out the house long ago, at $15 for the best seats, the proceeds (some $22,000) going to the Musicians Emergency Fund. In the audience were New York's Mayor LaGuardia...
...Tall, bald Postmaster General Farley (Paul Parks) "Keeps his popularity forever hail and hearty, by finding jobs for everyone in the Democratic party...
...palpable success of Mr. Goldwyn's gamble on his two "discoveries" is due partly to their own able performances, partly to the skillful production of bald, burly Associate Producer Merritt Hulburd, partly to the inherent soundness of the story by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Their hero, Terangi (Jon Hall), has been happy all his life because he has been free and healthy. His boss, Captain Nagle (Jerome Cowan), gave him a blue cap when he made him first mate of the fishing schooner; after that Terangi was happier than ever. His happiness reached a vivid, lyric pinnacle...
...season was the appointment of veteran Player Frank ("King") Clancy to manage the Montreal Maroons, and the accession of William J. ("Bill") Stewart, 42, National League baseball umpire and National League hockey referee, to managership of Major Frederic Mclaughlin's Chicago Blackhawks. Bill Stewart, square-set, affable and bald, preens himself on being one of the least vilified umpires in baseball. He has, however, been mixed up in some fair-to-middling hockey brawls, one of which nearly cost him his arm. While coaching hockey at Milton Academy a decade ago, he trained Barry Wood who later became...