Word: hasn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...give you the "lowdown" on just how the movies affect your growing family? what they like and dislike on the silver screen, what effect, if any, it has on their adolescent minds, their own pet actors and actresses?statistics 'n all." In fact about the only thing he hasn't done to the unsuspecting high school pupils of 76 American cities and large towns is to lay them...
...speaking at a meeting under the auspices of the Central Labor Union in Faneuil Hall, when I used this expression 'joy in work' from all over the hall came a derisive guffaw. That was the state of mind of the labor union man 20 years ago, and he hasn't changed that mind since." He cannot change his mind without becoming a hypocrite...
...hasn't a great voice. She can act, of course, especially in those roles that call for the robust, voluptuous type. But it is mainly that mystical something that passes across the footlights and makes the audience a collection of cheerers-personality. Caruso had it, and it did as much toward his success as his miracles of voice and phrasing. The crowd liked Caruso. He made friends with them right away...
...Jeritza hasn't half the voice of Rosa Ponselle of the Metropolitan Company. Ponselle has one of the finest soprano voices in the world. She doesn't catch on. That, of course, is partly because she is an American, by birth, study, and career. It is to be doubted that any singer has ever made a debut with the fortunate circumstances under which Rosa Ponselle made hers. She had been a cabaret singer in New Haven, Conn. She was just out of vaudeville. Gatti Casazza thought he had found a second Farrar. For her first operatic appearance...
...Hampden made an ingenious experiment when he revived it. Surely he did so not because he wanted it to be preserved as a sample of ancestral art, but because he thought it was still good entertainment for the regular theatre-goer. He was right--but the regular theatre-goer hasn't waked up yet. "The Beggar's Opera" was an identical experiment, but in that case the theatre-goer did wake up. Perhaps it was the press-agent...