Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keeps a flat in London, where he lives with his brother, a tutor and three servants, drives himself about in a miniature car, often visits the London zoo, where he makes friends with the elephants and stables his mongoose, Rikki. In his first picture, Sabu memorized the sound of English words, spoke them without understanding. Now, having packed a lifetime's schooling into two years, he not only speaks and reads English but can read French and Latin as well, hopes to get into Oxford in three years. Last week, Sabu sailed on the Aquitania for his first visit...
...Chicago to lay plans for the next biennial convention, to be held in Baltimore next May. Inveterate resolvers, even when meeting in smaller groups, the Federationists, led by their doe-eyed national president, Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober last week resolved: 1) to encourage the singing of opera in the English language (see above), 2) to support the development of small local opera companies throughout the U. S., 3) to pay more attention to music in the rural schools, 4) to help the growth of orchestral music 5) to encourage mass singing, 6) to further the observance of American Music Year...
...Jules Falk, a Philadelphia musician, proposed a summer season of translated opera at Atlantic City's Steel Pier, the Pier's President, Frank Gravatt, was leery of it. But Director Falk went ahead with his plan, put on Pagliacci and one act of Boris Godounoff in English. The double bill, given in one of the gigantic Pier's five theatres, went over so well that opera in English became a permanent feature of Atlantic City's summer-season...
Last week the Steel Pier Opera Company, only 100% English-speaking and English-singing opera company in the U.S. closed its eleventh successful year. In more than 400 performances the company had produced 34 different operas...
...people who balk most strenuously at Director Falk's opera-in-Enghsh policy are neither the public nor the Pier management, but the singers themselves. U.S. singers who had learned their roles in French or Italian objected to relearning hem in English, claimed that the transated words did not roll off the tongue so trippingly as the original...