Word: frightener
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...this kind of frenzied anthologizing, however well meant, are exhausting. It is often said in defense of such musical popularization that it serves to interest many people in good music who might never otherwise learn to care for it. It might also be suggested that the effort could frighten many potential music lovers away...
...Really," sighed English Actress Eva Berkson, who currently owns & operates the theater, "I've almost come to the conclusion that the only way to frighten a French audience since the war is to cut up a woman on the stage-a live woman, of course-and throw them the pieces...
...plot were comparatively satisfactory. Gino Cervi as Mozart looked and acted the abstract conception of the composer, and Luigi Pavese as his father was adequately Deutsch. Italian actresses, unfortunately, do not seem to fill the bill of love interest: Conchita Montenegro as Aloysia would be enough to frighten Eric von Stroheim...
...When Russian troops frighten Iran," Somerville said, "we make a first-class base of it. when British troops threaten Iran, our State Department, with surpassing eloquence, says nothing...
This will be the only Boston appearance of the quartet this year, but such an announcement should not frighten the audience away. The average group which appears once in Boston allows all the slovenly playing it suppresses elsewhere to come out, realizing that the majority of its audience will not know any better. But this concert is to be sponsored by the Pierian Sodality, and therefore an audience of some artistic susceptibility may be present...