Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Nelson Eddy, 37, radio, concert and cinema singer; and Ann Franklin, 40, divorced wife of Cinema Director Sidney Franklin; he for the first time, she for the second; in Las Vegas...
Pianists Josef and Rosina Lhevinne gave a gala concert at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, commemorating their marriage as well as their joint debut 40 years ago. The smooth length of their married life (rare for virtuosos) Mrs. Lhevinne credited to: 1) frequent separations; 2) occasional quarrels; 3) mutual understanding...
Since the fluent production of speech on a keyboard is not so simple as pounding a typewriter, Bell Telephone picked 24 of the cleverest telephone operators from 300 candidates, gave them about twelve months' intensive training as Voder operators. Like concert pianists, they have to keep in trim by practicing several hours a day. The most difficult speech component they must coax out of Voder, and the one that sounds least natural, is the letter l. When someone at last week's demonstration asked for the words "Bell Telephone," they came out something like "Behrw Tehwephone...
Chicago music-lovers, remarkably constant in their devotion to Conductor Stock, are also remarkably devoted to the memory of Conductor Thomas. Every year since Conductor Thomas' death, a memorial concert has been held in his honor. Last week dignified 66-year-old Stock ambled to his place on the stage of Chicago's long-used Orchestra Hall to commemorate for the 34th time the death of his predecessor. Behind him sat 2,500 rapt Chicagoans, many of them oldsters who had heard their first overture played under Thomas' energetic baton. Solemnly they listened while white-haired Stock...
Busy Hormone. Prolactin also inhibits the activity of the sex glands, which is obviously nature's way of quieting the distraction of sex urges when parental behavior and responsibility are called for. And either alone or in concert with other hormones, it maintains the weight of abdominal organs; controls basal metabolism (heat production) ; promotes appetite; and probably also affects the metabolism of carbohydrates...