Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a Hamburg bull-fiddler and his 44-year-old wife produced a lumpish son 100 years ago, the world was blessed with one of its greatest musical creators. The infant son was Johannes Brahms, who lived to grow a beard which was worthy of his name. At the end of this I season that name will have added luster, for Arturo Toscanini is conducting the New York Philharmonic in no less than 18 all-Brahms concerts...
...pound class--Stuart Finer '36 (H) defeated Beard (A) by decision...
...well, too, for the true Don Quixote actually lives in the tall, spare-frame of Feodor Chaliapin. Singing little, but acting much, he has recreated the lovable old idiot. Nothing could be more purposefully ridiculous than the skeleton-like Chaliapin, with his wild hair and corkscrew beard, crawling out of an attic window buttocks up to find himself facing his pursuers--in his nightshirt. Nor could anything be more pathetically humorous than the armor-clad knight as he revolves in a large circle slowly about the windmill, stuck fast in one of the sails. And so scene after vivid scene...
...reward of his own patience and integrity, Dr. Sporum's first impulse is to buy himself a patented pencil sharpener. His second is to fall in love with his benefactress, who begins to understand the perils of irresponsible benevolence. By the time Dr. Sporum has had his beard shaved off and presented Luisa Ginglebusher with a fox neckpiece, there is nothing much left in The Good Fairy except the scene in which Luisa explains to her three puzzled admirers what she has been up to, straightens out a tangled situation by marrying Dr. Sporum with Herr Konrad for best...
...late John Singer Sargent would occasionally mutter into his beard that "Portrait painting is a pimp's profession!" and go off to do his best work, loose inspired landscapes in watercolor. Frank O. Salisbury has little time for such relaxation. He is not only a court painter but a ceremonial painter, commissioned to record on enormous canvases such scenes as The King's Offering in Henry VII's chapel in Westminster Abbey; The Official Picture of H. R. H. Princess...