Word: gordons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Told the graduating class of the Malcolm Gordon School at Garrison, N. Y. to put as much joy in their lives as possible...
...decided Secretary Woodin is a composer "of high merit." Secretary Wallace was to give the commencement address, nationally broadcast, at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa). Speaker Rainey and Budget Director Douglas were to speak at Amherst alumni reunions. Busy Mrs. Roosevelt officiated at two commencements last fortnight, at Malcolm Gordon School (Garrison, N. Y.) and Todhunter in Manhattan where she used to teach. Last week she received an LL.D. from Washington (D. C.) College of Law and gave counsel to its graduating class: "The greatest thing that life does is to give you experience and knowledge of other people." Kudos...
...around their heads. The Twin City Opera Company gave Rigoletto. University students gave Madame Butterfly. John Erskine, Harold Bauer, Rudolph Ganz, Ernest Hutcheson and Henri Deering played the piano. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and Soprano Florence Macbeth (from Mankato, Minn.) sang. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored chamber music by the Gordon String Quartet. Twenty-five amateur choruses performed and an orchestra came from San Antonio, Tex., the players all in their early teens. Delegates who took a few hours off to buy presents to take home heard music in the department stores. When they walked in Powderhorn Park they heard community...
...Jones, P. D. Junkin, J. J. Knox, R. P. Lavietes, F. B. Lawson, J. B. Little, C. P. Lyman, B. T. Macliveen, J. H. Macey, E. C. Malowitz, Harry Marvin-Smith, B. F. Merriam, Edward Motley, A. E. Newhold, P. D. O'Brien, M. A. Olson, G. A. Ott, Gordon Palmer, H. V. Poor, R. D. Reed, Warren Richards, B. C. Riggs, S. H. Rindge, E. L. Rogers, E. P. Rosenbaum, J. B. Rowland, S. C. Salmon, Mark Saxton, F. F. Schimmel, O. M. Schloss, C. G. Sherwood, Roger Silsby, W. A. Smith, T. W. Steptoe, R. N. Svoboda...
...expert Wagnerian performers who saved the past season from out & out disaster will repeat their acts. Paunchy Tenor Paul Althouse, who made a Metropolitan debut 20 years ago before he was artistically mature, will rejoin the company. Last week as soon as another season was assured, Cyrena Van Gordon, onetime Chicago Opera contralto, was engaged for the Metropolitan. So was Baritone John Charles Thomas, the Pennsylvania Methodist Minister's son who after an apprenticeship in musical comedy Maytime, Apple Blossoms) has developed one of the smoothest baritone voices...