Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proud of its culture is Cincinnati, "Queen City of the West." Part of its cultural tradition, for 20 summers, has been opera in a pavilion in the Cincinnati Zoo, where shrilling peacocks sometimes compete with the piccolos, roaring lions double in bass. Last Sunday night Bizet's Carmen opened another Zoo season. There are no great Carmens today. One of the most persistent, bouncing Italian Bruna Castagna, gave her usual interpretation of the gypsy who seduces Soldier Don José (Tenor Raoul Jobin, Metropolitan debutant of last season), then gives him what Broadway calls the brusheroo...
...teacher, thrashed through the Darktown Strutters' Ball, nearly fell down at the end, won $25. Bill DeHart, gangling 15-year-old, took $15 for his wild, jitterbugging direction of Put On Your Old Gray Bonnet. By week's end, when he moved on to hold contests in Cincinnati, Sammy Kaye was ordering batons in lots of 1,000, giving them away to admirers as well as contestants, at the rate...
Their own freedom frightened them: it began to look like inescapable responsibility. The delegates scuttled back to the bosses' comforting shelter. The wandering lines reformed. For this moment two men, David S. Ingalls of Cleveland, and Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, had planned well...
When the field narrowed down to the semi-finalists-after two days of postponement because of rain-no one in the Merion Cricket Club stands was surprised at the survivors: McNeill, Hunt, Guernsey and Bill Talbert, University of Cincinnati up-&-comer, who had ousted Ted Schroeder in the quarterfinals. Tennis tournaments usually run truer to form than golf tournaments. Last week's was no exception. In the semifinals, Hunt put out Guernsey, McNeill put out Talbert. And in the final, sharpshooting, canny McNeill, seeded No. 1, subdued Hunt in straight sets, 7-5, 6-1, 6-1. Trooping...
Pianist Schuyler has given concerts in auditoriums and theatres since she was six, has engagements this summer in Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Youngstown, Cincinnati, Atlantic City. Her mother, whom she calls "Jody," sold the idea of Philippa Schuyler Day to the World's Fair. With five gardenias in her black curls, Philippa gave two free concerts in a little theatre. She rattled off classics, played some of the 63 pieces she has made up since she was four: The Goldfish, The Jolly Pig, Manhattan Silhouettes. Self-confident but not brash, Philippa explained her Cockroach Ballet...