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Word: franz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lafayette Benedict Mendel, Sterling Professor of Physiological Chemistry at Yale University, and Dr. William Mansfield Clark, professor of Biological Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University Medical School have been appointed as Cutter Lecturers on Preventive Medicine for 1929-30. Professor Franz Knoop, professor of Biological Chemistry at Tubingen has been named as Dunham Lecturer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIO OF NOTED SAVANTS TO TEACH HERE BEFORE 1931 | 1/21/1930 | See Source »

Cinemagoers who saw Gloria Swanson in The Trespasser (TIME, Nov. 11) were surprised when she sang the tawdry theme song in a voice exceedingly pleasant. Hungarian Franz Lehar, venerable comic opera composer (The Merry Widow, Gypsy Love, The Count of Luxemburg) saw The Trespasser in Berlin. For two years he had consistently refused to write music for cinema production, but so impressed was he with the Swanson singing that last week he agreed to compose music for Queen Kelly, an unlucky Swanson vehicle- started two years ago, exhausting two directors (Von Stroheim and Goulding) and millions of dollars, still unfinished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swanson Operetta | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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