Word: gladings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tradition intact last week. Out went Mayor David Abbott ("Honest Ab") Jenkins, 60, famed as the nation's fastest driver, who had ridden triumphantly into office in his speed-bug, but had promptly smashed up in quarrels with the city commissioners. In as mayor went polished, polite Earl Glade, 58, vice president of Salt Lake's influential radio station KSL. Explained defeated Mayor Ab Jenkins, whose speed records were amassed in solo flights across the Utah salt flats: "I'm not used to running a race against someone else...
...years the biggest U. S. summer school has been Columbia's, where thousands of schoolteachers become students again for a six-week term. Last week, as usual, a swarm of teachers, mostly women from small-town schools, made a bee-loud glade of the precincts of Teachers College. But this war season is not as most sum mers on Morningside Heights...
...sing sweetly of its lice and mud and torture and death. . . . This present tragedy of history is markedly different from its predecessors. In this war the artist is on the spot. Whatever his previous preoccupation with three plums in a silver dish or three girls in a grassy glade, the artist has now been wrenched out of it by the necessity of recording . . . man's reaction to the greatest crisis of all history. . . . No aggregation of the art of the future can fail to be profoundly altered by the record these men are making of the titanic times which...
...Chicago Opera last week, Kiepura was scheduled to sing opposite another Carmen: sloe-eyed Contralto Coe Glade. In rehearsal, Kiepura carefully pulled his punches. Annoyed, Contralto Glade avowed that she was no sissy and could take anything Contralto Swarthout could, and maybe a little more. "Put that in writing," demanded Kiepura. Contralto Glade promptly wrote: "You may consider this your release of any criticism on my part for any physical damage I may receive tonight as the result of your usually vigorous and dynamic portrayal of Don José. The public does not want nor does it expect a polite...
Kiepura that night was a Don José without restraint. But the score, as the curtain fell: no knockouts. The judge's decision (by Critic Claudia Cassidy): "Miss Glade was supple, audacious, and sure of herself, singing in the wild mezzo that can range from voluminously lovely to something as fuzzy...