Word: butterflyer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At California's Stanford University last week Biologist Dietrich Bodenstein displayed a winged insect which was half immature pupa, half mature butterfly. This monster was a by-product of Dr. Bodenstein's discovery of the agency which causes the final metamorphosis from pupa to adult. It is a...
For at least a generation modernistic esthetes and masterminds have been prophesying a speedy decline for the sentimental operas of the late Giacomo Puccini. Sensible critics,*however, have often pointed out that, though they may be bathetic, Puccini's operas are masterpieces of musical stagecraft, shaped by one of...
¶ In Washington. Harry Oldperson. 55, and Joe Butterfly. 71, both Blackfoot Indians, gave 30-year-old James Roosevelt a headdress, a Blackfoot membership and a new name: "Eagle Child."
*March, "Washington Post"Sousa *Overture to "Raymond" Thomas *Allegretto from the Second Symphony Brahms *Fantasia, "Madame Butterfly" Puccini *Legend from the "Indian Suite" MacDowell *Large from "Xerxes" Handel *Rhapsody in Blue Soloist: Jesus Maria Sanroma Gershwin *"Jolly Fellows," Waltzes Vollstedt *"Sophisticated Lady" Ellington-McBride *"Tritsch-Tratsch," Polka Strauss *Selections checked...
Last week the 1938 jamboree opened with a Graustarkian comic opera entitled Smeltania, followed by coronation of a Smelt King & Queen. Next day jamboreers jammed banquets, watched smelt-eating contests, sang an official smelt-jamboree song, learned to dance "the smelt run," a cross between the shag and the big...