Word: frida
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flutter of the week in Manhattan was caused by the first exhibition of paintings by famed Muralist Diego Rivera's German-Mexican wife, Frida Kahlo. Too shy to show her work before, black-browed little Frida has been painting since 1926, when an automobile smashup put her in a plaster cast, "bored as hell...
This was a fairly exact, if flattering, figure. Little Frida's pictures, mostly painted in oil on copper, had the daintiness of miniatures, the vivid reds and yellows of Mexican tradition and the playfully bloody fancy of an unsentimental child...
Granted this year for the first time, the prize was founded in 1934 through a bequests of $20,000 by Mrs. Frida Adler of New York City in memory of her husband. It is given once every three years "for the best piece of original research produced in the United States or Canada within the medical or allied sciences...
Considering the fact that Marjorie Lawrence has been singing in opera for only three years and that it was her first attempt at Brünnhilde in German, her performance was one to command high praise. She lacked the grandeur of Frida Leider, the vocal powers of Kirsten Flagstad. But she conducted herself with more confidence and poise than do many of the singers who have had long experience on the Metropolitan stage. Her voice was uneven but at its best it was vibrantly warm, true in its top notes, rich when it was low. More than most...
...easily next best. Lilian Nordica from Farmington, Me. sang better than she acted. Olive Fremstad's impersonation was abundant with feeling but often uncontrolled. Johanna Gadski sang so long past her prime that her first excellent performances grew dim in memory. The current outstanding Brünnhildes are Frida Leider and Gertrude Kappel. Both give the rôle its true heroic proportions but their voices are no longer young...