Word: feste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sidelights on the game include: loser-pay beer fest was sort of a farewell party for most of the Supply School team, who are being detached today; our own sweet Lupy is reported to have lost heavily on the game, and Lt. Com. Moore and Lt. Jeffrey of the Supply School were the enemy's backers! And, to tell the whole truth, there were 6 runs, 3 hits, and 6 errors for our side, 14 runs, 13 hits and 1 error for there guys. (Box score through the courtesy of their score keeper...
...Walter Damrosch went to St. Louis to conduct an oldtime German Stinger fest and found Traubel scheduled as a soloist. He was so bowled over by her voice that he invited her to Manhattan, promptly wrote a part for her in his opera The Man without a Country. The opera 'was a flop, but Traubel stayed on in Manhattan, cooking her own meals, mending her own clothes, plugging away patiently at her vocal studies. Two years later she managed to scrape up the cash for a Town Hall debut and critics made such a fuss that the Metropolitan added...
...action that makes "They Got Me Covered" a five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomine. No, Hope is best when he is talking. He has a microphone personality and a master-of-ceremonies approach. Unlike your fat-and-thin combos (Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Maxwell & Winchell), with Hope the ceremonies themselves don't seem to matter. Nobody cares what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They...
...action that makes "They Got Me Covered" a five-star, on-the-nose, A-1 priority laff fest. Give me Groucho Marx for slapstick and Charlie Chaplin for pantomime. No. Hope is best when he is talking. He has a microphone personality and a master-of-ceremonies approach. Unlike your fat-and-thin combos (Abbot & Costello, Laurel & Hardy, Maxwell & Winchell), with Hope the ceremonies themselves don't seem to matter. Nobody cares what this quipping correspondent is doing; they just want to hear what he has to say about the situation. And from this point of view, "They...
Soap operas, the joy and pain of millions of U.S. radio listeners, have never sudsed up the English air. But for months now, though English ears cannot hear the program (it is short-waved away for all the fest of the world to hear), the august, government-controlled British Broadcasting Corp. has had a soap opera. Its title: Front-Line Family...