Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most controversial composition; of the age, Igor Stravinsky's savage Sacre du Printemps (" Rite of Spring" ). Executors of the event were the League of Composers, prime promoters of modern music, and Conductor Leopold Anton Stanislaw Boleslaw Stokowski who, with his Philadelphia Orchestra, is an institution unto himself. As companion piece or curtain-raiser was given Composer Arnold Schönberg's Die Glückliche Hand (" Hand of Fate...
...editorial matter?essays, fiction, humor? consistent with the oldtime Mentor, but to deck out the material with capable, sometimes racy, illustration. Although the magazine's circulation reached 85,000, it became apparent that it would never pull in harness with its whopping big Crowell team-mates?Woman's Home Companion, Collier's, The Country Home (onetime Farm & Fireside), The American Magazine ? whose combined circulation is over...
Independent tutoring has declined appreciably, with the growth of private tutoring schools. Tutor-companion jobs are more in demand, but the work is so specialized that comparatively few men are qualified. The tutor-companion earnings were the largest during the 1929 season...
...left San Diego in an Army plane for Calexico, Calif., unhappily named neighbor of Mexicali, Mexico. The plane was forced down, lost, 50 miles south of the border. U. S. and Mexican troops and civilians searched four days before finding Col. Bishop's companion. He directed the searchers 30 miles to the south where lay Col. Bishop, unable to talk or walk. He had subsisted on two sandwiches, two oranges, radiator water from the wrecked plane...
...what it used to be. When I went on before the footlights my family disowned me. It was a disgrace to enter the theatrical profession. But when I began to make good my father left home and spent his time travelling with me. He acted as my companion until he died. The stage and the people on it have changed. Now it is no longer a disgrace to enter the profession but a social asset. We find the stars of the drama in the very best circles of society. They are accepted by all in the position that they deserve...