Word: cantors
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Once the home of John Barrymore, Eddie Cantor and Fanny Brice, 42nd Street began to decline with the Crash of 1929, which bankrupted a number of the theater owners, turning legitimate stages into burlesque houses and movie theaters. Even in Giuliani's youth questionable entertainments were a staple (the future mayor could have paid to see a man eat live mice at Hubert's Museum and Flea Circus). The postwar exodus of the city's middle class continued the block's slow skid into porndom...
DIED. HUGO WEISGALL, 84, composer and teacher; in Manhasset, New York. The Czech-born son of a cantor emigrated to the U.S. in 1920 and became a tireless champion of American music. Setting moral dramas by Strindberg (The Stronger) and Pirandello (Six Characters in Search of an Author) in English with a distinctive vocal line, he was one of the country's most influential composers...
...Univison/WUNI (Worcester). Home of Andreas (iGOOOOOOL!) Cantor and a significant variety of matches from Latin America. Check for Sunday's Mexican Game of the Week...
...Harvard alumni will have the opportunity to vote on the overseers by mail this spring. The alums will receive their ballots on April 15 and must return them by May 31, according to HAA's Assistant Director for Alumni Relations Jane Cantor...
...bring the collection down to manageable proportions," he explains. "This has forced us to look in every corner. There are some things we had just forgotten that we had." It is a situation that most museums face. "Too many of them wanted to be mini-Mets," says Jay Cantor, Christie's director of museum services, referring to New York City's vast Metropolitan Museum of Art. "They took in everything they could get. Now they're being forced to rethink their missions...