Word: concert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood and Cafe Society star, the 21-year-old redhead is in the Hub area for a Radcliffe Alumul-sponsored concert in Arlington tomorrow night. A bevy of concert usherettes escorted her to the Network studies to record a program for broadcasting tonight...
Once, in his excitement after a brilliant violin solo, the old man interrupted the music of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme suite to clap. Conductor Beecham threw a silencing glance over his shoulder and Composer Strauss looked around apologetically. When the concert was over, the crowds stood applauding while Octogenarian Strauss climbed slowly "down the stairs to the stage. He bowed and croaked "Merci! merci...
Gratitude from a Waitress. Last May, invited to conduct the London Philharmonic for one concert, he replied that one concert would not be worth his while. Britain was poor, but not too poor to help. Last week's concert was the first of six in a Strauss festival: two he will conduct himself; the others will be given in his honor. Wealthy Sir Thomas (Beecham Pills) and the BBC chipped in with extra concerts. From a waitress came a ten-shilling postal order "because I come from a musical family." The British Treasury promised to "consider favorably" a proposal...
After a southern tour only a shade more rewarding than the gridiron expedition, the University Band has scheduled an unprecedented football concert for the Dartmouth weekend in an attempt to reform straggling lines...
...there was nothing that might have provoked any confusion. Suddenly there was a complete blank in my memory.... I would have taken the whole matter for an unpleasant incident, had I not heard a strange explanation from one of the orchestra's musicians. After the end of the concert, this musician went out on the casino terrace for a drink. At the next table he overheard four men exchanging congratulations on having successfully disturbed the performance by tele-hypnosis. Three of the men handed a 50-florin bill to the fourth...