Word: eva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Eva Gauthier announces a song-recital she does not need to label her songs with the conventional "first time anywhere" in order to attract the musically alert. Fifteen years ago Eva Gauthier established a reputation as a sensitive purveyor of interesting, untried songs. At her debut in 1917 she sang the first Stravinsky songs ever sung in the U. S. In 1924 when skirts were at knee-length, she caused more talk by appearing in a subdued, trailing gown and singing the songs of an upstart named George Gershwin. More pigeon-plump now than when John Singer Sargent sketched...
...dying of heart disease, he put on many a magic show to please the child. Afterwards, when his uncle was lying on his deathbed, he stole the magic paraphernalia, put on a show of his own at the village inn. Only the quick wit of his goddess, Eva Veeders, who could turn cartwheels in & out of rooms without brushing the doorposts, saved him from disgrace...
...when he was sent off to learn from a priest. On his way home after the interview he passed a dead willow, with a hollow branch that looked like a snake's head. Into the hollow he stuck the contents of his pockets, crystallized almonds, nuts, Eva Veeder's ring. Lacking more, he picked little red hips from wildrose shrubs, stuffed them into the serpent's jaws. Going away he looked back, saw some magpies flying around the place; one was perched on the serpent's head, seemed to be pecking into the jaws. "A feeling...
...intensified by the acting of Miss Yurka. One is loth to blame her for her declamatory style of acting in a play that was written when such acting was in vogue, but at times one thinks the lady does protest too much, to render ludicrous a scene which Eva Le Gallienne's more subdued portrayal would have made dramatic. Her manner also makes her seem too feline and too charmless to attract the trio of men that the author gathers round her. She is a witch, and not a leading lady...
...Eva White, the first woman to speak at an Association dinner, will preside...