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Word: choir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard Glee Club is outstanding among college organizations for the originality and variety of its repertoire. The concert which the Club, together with the Radcliffe Choral Society and the brass choir of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is preparing for Thursday of next week will increase considerably its reputation for originality...

Author: By L. C. Hoivik, | Title: The Music Box | 2/27/1940 | See Source »

...Chicago Herald-American as art critic and rewrite man specializing in rape & murder. Versatile Newsman Burg also paints, in 1939 had more canvases hung in out-of-town shows than any other Chicago artist. Uneasy has been his job as art critic since last August, when the whole choir of Hearstpapers began to laud Sanity in Art. Last month he stuck his burly neck out by panning Chicago art dealers and citizenry alike, calling a WPA art show the best in town. Last week, on orders from Hearst's California castle, San Simeon, Burg was told to stick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Murder, Rape and Painting | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...idea that "social significance" has something to do with the amusement business. So the picture, which takes its name from a truncated Russian mandolin, the balalaika, includes not only fatuously lovable grand dukes and musicians, but downright sinister Bolsheviks. It also includes Baritone Nelson Eddy, the Russian Cossack Choir, an excellent cast (Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, Charles Ruggles, C. Aubrey Smith) and a lot of gorgeous clothing and sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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