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Word: dulling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concerts, made her radio debut as Toscanini's chosen soloist and sung three times at the Metropolitan Opera House. Her last Metropolitan performance coincided last week with the conclusion of the Wagner Cycle (TIME, Feb. 12). The opera was Die Meistersinger and Eva who has always seemed a dull heroine suddenly bloomed forth as a charming young person, very much in love. Critics who marvel at the warm eloquence of Lotte Lehmann's singing, the contralto richness that holds to the high est notes, again complained because they had to wait so long to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: I Am Success | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...capability not at all inferior to the smugly haughty pure Americano, and comely to boot. Point for point this black-and-tan show surpasses the usual run of stage filler offered in the movie mosques; this is said with full consciousness that "Harlem on Parade" is in places unduly dull, smutty, and often merely nerve-shattering...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: "HARLEM ON PARADE" "MADAME SPY" | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

This play is the first production of the Unnamed Players, and it is the first time that "Cymbeline" has been presented in Boston for a century. According to the players, they have "quietly buried the untidy, dull historical plot; what remains is the fine central incident, the trial of Imogen's chastity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNNAMED PLAYERS ARE TO PRESENT "CYMBELINE" | 3/16/1934 | See Source »

...Valliere began by toying decorously with her mother's lovers. Count Kardak was a wise and charming old sybarite who should have known better. In fact he did, but how could he resist the idea of inviting Renee to his remote little principality for the wedding of his earnest, dull and handsome heir, Max, to the buxom girl scout duchess of the neighboring principality? In the ensuing battle of wits with wits and with with brawn, Count Anton looked on helplessly at some amazing situations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...Devil's Holiday"--Columbia recording. Benny Carter and his Harlem Orchestra try to find rhythm; stick to Calloway. "Symphony In Riffs" on the other side, and despite fancy title is dull...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Records | 3/9/1934 | See Source »

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