Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solemnly and unanimously, the executive committee of the ancestor-worshiping Daughters of the American Revolution decided to keep its Constitution Hall for "white artists only." Miss Scott could not, as she had asked, give a concert there. Said D.A.R. President General Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge of Georgia: "It was a nice harmonious meeting...
...measured complaints of Democrat Powell and his 25-year-old wife were prompt-and promptly relayed to the press. In Minneapolis for a concert, Miss Scott told newsmen she thought the First Lady's action "looks as if she gives sanction" to the D.A.R. action...
...closed their doors to one of the descendants of Crispus Attucks, first American to die in the Boston Massacre (1770). A handful of Harlem residents (called together by Powell) formed its own "People's D.A.R.," standing for "Drive Against Reaction," and booked Carnegie Hall for a Scott concert...
Renewing the custom, unobserved since the last Yale game weekend in 1942, The Harvard Glee Club will journey to New Haven and join with the singers of Eli in giving the annual concert of the two clubs Saturday evening, December 1, E. Barr Peterson '47, the Club's manager, revealed yesterday. He gave no details as to the exact hour and place or the procedure for obtaining tickets...
...science (Conquering Pain, Friendly Alloys, Story of Radar); Thursdays, current events (War Criminals, The Hero's Return) ; Fridays, literature (The Pickwick Papers, The Devil and Daniel Webster.) The regular talent is top-drawer: famed Explorer Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews narrates the history show; Bernard Herrmann and the Columbia Concert Orchestra plays the Tuesday music lessons; and Commentator Quincy Howe is moderator on the current events programs...