Word: dabblers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banker and a conductor, Worcester, Mass, (famed for machinery, wire and textile manufacturies) was treated last week to its 71st festival of music. Six years ago New England's oldest festival threatened to snuff out for lack of financial support. President Hamilton B. Wood of Commonwealth Press, a dabbler in musical composition, became indignant at the prospect. He won the support of keen Carpetmaker Matthew P. Whittall and Treasurer Harrison G. Taylor of the local Five Cents Savings Bank. Together these three canvassed the city for subscriptions, engaged Conductor Albert Stoessel. Now the annual concerts in Mechanics Hall are rewarded...
...scrape together and signalize Canada's cultural fragments, Bertram Brooker, Canadian dabbler at painting and sculpture, music and dramatic critic, has compiled his Yearbook of the Arts in Canada ?limited to 999 copies?hopeful that "it will be produced annually if the public response demonstrates that it is worth doing." Because the fat volume is largely composed of disheartened little essays on the Dominion's dearth of artistic production, well might readers wonder why it was done even this year...
Originally one of vaudeville's "Willson Sisters," Mrs. Millicent Willson Hearst, mother of five sons, sumptuous hostess, (Palm Beach, California, New York, the Continent), philanthropist, landlady of smart Manhattan apartments, dabbler in English magazines (Nash's), is the daughter of Comedian George Willson, clog dancer, once famed as "George Leslie" for his Negroid dance "Mule in the Sand." now opulently retired, addicted to the stovepipe...