Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire range of his versatility. With conventional operatic zest he sang an aria from Mehul's almost forgotten Joseph in Egypt. His loud tones were not always smooth but there was none of the nasal bleating common to most German tenors. Lieder by Schumann and Schubert he sang with expert tenderness, using perhaps too often a pianissimo of exquisite softness. The rest of the evening was Lehar, Lehar cheered by an audience which refused to go home until it had heard "Dein ist meinganzes Herz" ("Thine Is My Heart Alone") from The Land of Smiles which Tauber made the rage...
...Unholy Garden (United Artists). Ronald Colman is the cinemactor who exemplifies romantic savoir faire. His admirers are pleased to note that no situation causes him to lose his deliberated calm, his air of graceful self-sufficiency. Colman's qualifications, together with Estelle Taylor's expert impersonation of a lush and crafty siren, comprise the chief virtues of The Unholy Garden. The story is by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, who were unsure whether they were writing comedy or melodrama and did neither vigorously...
...Record is frail, earnest Sidney Wallach, 26, lately managing editor of the defunct Jewish Tribune. For active associates Editor Wallach enlisted Rabbi Louis Israel Newman as an authority on religion; Harry Schneiderman, assistant secretary of the American Jewish Committee (of which the late Louis Marshall was president) as an expert on Jewish foreign affairs; and Dr. Israel Schapiro, chief of the Division of Semitic & Oriental Literature of the Library of Congress, authority on Jewish scholarship...
...with me for this game? Barry Wood first and then I'll talk with you." After I overheard this bit of repartee between the coaches I decided that today's game would probably be a battle of wits. That will make prognostication a bit more difficult for any ordinary expert but not for me the Stage of the Age. I decree: Harvard 21, Dartmouth 10. Holy Cross 20 Duquesne 0 Yale 27 St. Johns 0 Georgia 14 N. Y. U. 13 Chinese 7 Japanese 0 Columbia 19 Virginia 0 Brown 20 Ohio Wesleyan 0 Lehigh 7 Princeton 6 Notre Dame...
...such opposed arguments, yet a deep faith in the infallibility of scientific investigation clings to minds that have long since rejected faith in the infallibility of the Church. Critical perception is dulled by the glamour of famous names; so that the educated world, from being priest-ridden, has become expert-ridden. The coming of Dr. de Sitter is an exemplary occasion for the expression of scientific agnosticism...