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Supplementing her $60 a week, Maman Savage took pupils in voice, French diction, dramatics. Today she lives with her beauteous, red-haired daughter May, also a Metropolitan chorus girl, in a Riverside Drive penthouse full of souvenirs, curios and whatnots. On its terrace she raises lettuce, tomatoes, weeds which she does not like to destroy because she thinks them pretty. In Maman Savage's parlor is a nickel-&-dime bank for contributions to the Ellin Prince Speyer hospital for ani-mals-in memory of her cat, buried in Hartsdale Cemetery beneath a tombstone marked "Our Minikin." Stately and white...
...held from a flat car at Wabash Avenue and Madison Street in Chicago's "Loop." Some 2,000 people heard the proceedings through amplifiers, many thousands more over the NBC radio network. One railroad president and two vice presidents judged the contestants on "pronunciation, articulation, inflection and diction...
...Susan Anthony Potter prize of $100 for the best thesis by a student in Harvard University or Radcliffe College on any subject in the field of Comparative Literature, to John Arthos 3G, of Camden, Delaware, for his thesis on "Natural Philosophy and the Diction of Dryden's Poetry...
...Time to Dance" is composed like a symphony, with three movements; the themes of each movement are separate, and each movement is self-contained. The first describes an early trans-continental flight to Australia, and it illustrates abundantly the devotion of Day Lewis to a strictly contemporary poetic diction, which takes account of the machine and the effect of machinery upon modern life. There is mention, for example, of 'petrol pump,' 'hangar,' 'filter,' 'magneto,' and other technical expressions. Dr. Johnson's strictures on this kind of poetic diction appear in his discussion of Dryden's "Annus Mirabilis," and though they...
...contrast to the words they sang. Perhaps this scheme was too subtle for the literal-minded. The music was never unpleasant, but for 50 minutes it ambled along like a monotonous introduction to something which never began. Unfortunately for the libretto, the Pasha was played by Lawrence Tibbett whose diction is so clear that the audience understood every word he sang. And fortunately for John Laurence Seymour a Manhattan audience will applaud any new opera. For the occasion the delighted composer had been granted leave of absence from the California State Junior College where he teaches dramatics. His curtain calls...