Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hint that his performance has not been up to his best. One of the consequent duties of faithful, bustling Lawrence Farrell, once his dresser, now his play manager, is to beguile Lunt out of these funks. Farrell bounces in between acts with box-office reports, fanciful tales of extra chairs required in the balcony. Applause is Lunt's meat, disapproval his poison. During Reunion in Vienna in London he was making a curtain speech when some one called "Louder!"' Lunt thought the man said ''Lousy!" and was ready to quit the stage and go back...
...altissimo, Soprano Sack perfected her coloratura. When, as a member of the able Dresden Opera, she sang in the world première of Richard Strauss's Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), and later in a revival of his Ariadne Auf Naxos, Composer Strauss wrote in extra fioriture for her nimble vocal chords...
...Sack lives plainly in plain hotels, arises daily at 7 a. m., dislikes to practice. Of her voice, Soprano Sack says: "Every manager, everywhere I go, wants me to give the public my high notes. Very well, I give them. But I give them as a kind of extra present. Please understand, I am a normal singer. ... I refuse to transpose anything to display my high notes. I insist on singing in the original...
...seen following the wake of boats in southern waters in hopes of garbage, and whaling ships used to vary the monotony of long voyages by endeavoring to catch the huge fish. Man-eating sharks sixty feet in length not being uncommon, the whalers sometimes were forced to use, extra anchors as hooks. The cruelest method of catching of all is reported in the Edinburgh Observer...
...money was forwarded to the national headquarters of the Medical Bureau in New York. Of the total sum, the committee believes that roughly $2463.00 can be assigned to the ambulance itself, as itemized below. Factory cost of the ambulance $1855.00 Expenses incurred in shipping it to Spain $400.00 Extra parts $100.00 Extra tires...