Word: gynt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nerofilm). A little German girl dawdling home from school is spoken to by a pudgy, rubber-faced young man; he admires the ball she is bouncing and, whistling a snatch from Peer Gynt in a strange, convulsive way, buys her a funny balloon. Presently you see the ball rolling out of a clump of bushes, the balloon, caught in telegraph wires, bobbing crazily in the wind...
Married. Selena Royle, daughter of Playwright Edwin Milton Royle, actress (Peer Gynt, her father's Launcelot & Elaine}; and Earle Larimore, Theatre Guild actor (Mourning Becomes Electra); in Manhattan...
March from "Der Obersteiger" by Zeller; Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" by Nicolai; Valse Triste, by Sibelius; Peer Gynt, Suite, by Grieg; Ballet Suite by Gluck-Mottl; Ave Maria (Solo violin--J. Theodorowicz--Harp, Organ, and Strings); Ouverture Solennelle, "1812," by Tchaikovsky; Tales from the Vienna Woods, Waitz, by Strauss; "Tannhauser," Introduction and Song of the Evening Star (Violoncello solo: J. Langendoen) by Wagner; "Tannhauser," Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, by Strauss...
...offerings run the gamut of musical compositions from the deep overture of "Tannhauser" of the immoral Wagner to the lighter melody of Puccini's "Madame Butterfly" and Boccherini's Minuet. The program is as follows: Polonaise Chopin "Barber of Seville" overture Rossini Minuet Boccherini "Madame Butterfly" Fantasia Puccini "Peer Gynt" Suite Grieg "Valse Trieste" Sibelius "Tannhauser" overture Wagner "Girl Crazy" selections Gershwin "Artist Life" Walty Strauss Hungarin March Berlioz
...attended Columbia, at one time studied to become a physician. Her first legitimate part was with Ethel Barrymore in The Lady of the Camelias in 1918. The following year she toured with Walter Hampden as "Juliet," later appearing in the Theatre Guild's Power of Darkness and Peer Gynt. She likes to climb mountains, drive horses, eat spinach "because it reminds her of the country and gardens." Audiences watching her are reminded of Actress Claudette Colbert (TIME, April 28). Because she is an admirer of Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and because of the vulgar significance which attaches itself...