Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis, to be Vice Governor of the Philippines (now in Manila, Mr. Holliday is legal adviser to Governor General Roosevelt); Federal District Attorney George Emmerson Q. (for nothing) Johnson of Chicago, to be a U. S. District Judge (Attorney Johnson jailed Gangster Capone and nine other racketeers); Ernest B. Thomas of Rushville, Ind. to be a member of the Federal Farm Board (Rushville is the hometown of Republican Senate Leader Watson); Norman Armour, now Counsellor of Embassy at Paris, to be Minister to Haiti (a career diplomat, Mr. Armour diplomatically announced: "I'm as pleased to go to Haiti...
...same conductor. Audiences have been bigger when guest conductors came to Cleveland, like Sir Hamilton Harty (who will guest conduct during Conductor Sokoloff's customary mid-season absence this year), Enrique Fernandez Arbos of Madrid, Bernardino Molinari of Rome, and Composers Igor Stravinsky, Ottorino Respighi, Maurice Ravel, Ernest Bloch. Pointing out that "under the devoted and skillful guidance of its conductor, it has become a seasoned and matured organization of the highest artistic excellence," a resolution prepared by Newton Diehl Baker provided that the Orchestra Company should be "free to investigate and experiment," to insure the Orchestra...
...since the days of Victoria and Palmerston has public criticism been leveled against the Crown in Britain. The audience filed out in shocked silence. Newshawks hurried to the platform to interview the Master of University College who presided. Sir Michael Ernest Sadler,* scowling purse-lipped over his doctor's gown, said he: "I consider Mr. Wells's references to the King simply a dark line in the historian's larger contributions about national life...
Lounging about his villa at Celigny on Lake Geneva, wavy-haired Composer Ernest Schelling heard a woman scream. On the adjoining villa, occupied by young Robert Thompson Pell, press attaché of the U. S. delegation at the Disarmament Conference, servants ran about, wringing their hands, gesticulating toward a boat about 100 yd. offshore to which a woman was clinging while her screams became fainter. Composer Schelling raced into the water, swam to the boat, found Mrs. Pell in a bathing suit, unconscious, hanging head-down in the water. Her right leg was impaled on a sharp Swiss oarlock. Composer...
Prices: $1.50 top ($3 for the final concert). A 175-piece orchestra, each player getting $20 (at previous benefits the fee has been $15). All other services, including management, donated by NBC. A Bach concerto for three pianos executed at one & the same time by Harold Bauer, Ernest Hutcheson, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Schelling (see p. 32) and two others. Concertos played by Fritz Kreisler and Sergei Rachmaninoff, brought together for the first time at one & the same concert. An all-Tchaikovsky program, with Ossip Gabrilowitsch playing the piano concerto...