Word: conductivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edda, Countess Ciano once swam two miles out to a warship her father was about to inspect, climbed aboard and made for the Dictator in the guise of a dripping mermaid. For this unseemly conduct she at once received a vigorous verbal dressing-down. High-spirited Edda promptly did a dangerous high-dive off the bridge of the warship, swam, the two miles back to shore, and afterward in private was praised for her spunk by the delighted Dictator. She is the only real intimate of a man now lonely in his greatness. Al though from time to time...
...Boston Symphony will give the fourth pair of concerts of its regular series in Symphony Hall on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening. Dr. Koussevitsky is to conduct the first Boston performance of the orchestral suite from Stravinsky's ballet, "Le Baiser de la Fee", which was written in 1928. The ballet bears the subtitle, "Inspired by the Muse of Tchaikovsky", and makes free use of that composer's themes. It seems rather incongruous that the neo-classic Stravinsky and the romantic Tchaikovsky should be thus combined, especially since the former has written: "I always aim at straight forward expression...
...Nikolai Sokoloff, national director of the Federal Music Project, is to conduct an augmented orchestra of 125 WPA musicians in the Opera House on Sunday evening. The program consists of Weber's Overture to "Euryanthe", Brahms's first Symphony, Loeffler's "Pagan Poem" with Heinrich Gebhard, pianist, as soloist, Romheld's Minuet, and the "Sailors' Dance" from "The Red Poppy" by Gliere. While the concert may not have the technical finish of some of those given by our established orchestra, it does nevertheless merit attention...
Promptly at 8:30 p. m. Benson K. Pratt, GOPressagent, stepped to the microphone to say: "Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, an outstanding Republican leader and a member of the United States Senate, is here to conduct a 'fireside chat...
Proudly in court appeared bandaged Musketeers Ayotte, Brazeau and Tremblay to answer charges of "disorderly conduct, creating a disturbance, and causing damage to property." Proudly behind them on spectators' benches sat scores of students who had escaped arrest but not injury, as their bandages and sticking-plaster showed...