Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medium, is always eager to pass his music on to an appreciative audience and that he will do so whenever he can. The ideal concert situation is that in which the artist performs for his own pleasure, and for the pleasure of those who may care to come and hear, music which he has chosen for its own sake alone...
Last winter, when the New York and San Francisco World's Fairs were in the lath-&-scaffold stage, New Yorkers and San Franciscans were already discussing tall plans for the music Fairgoers were to hear. Tallest planning was in Manhattan, where pudgy, music-loving Mayor LaGuardia had inaugurated a campaign to raise $1,200,000 to finance a World's Fair music festival. With this money, portly Olin Downes, New York Times music critic and Fair music director, proposed to buy Manhattan a festival she would never forget. Two months later news leaked out that the campaign...
...most of their social opportunities-until the CzechoSlovakian crisis. After Munich, the Misses Burgess and Lux could find only six U. S. girls whose parents would let them go to Geneva. They padded their enrollment with four CzechoSlovakian girls on scholarships, opened the fall term, soon began to hear from the U. S. girls' parents. Each time Adolf Hitler made a speech, the parents cabled the college. Each time, the Misses Burgess and Lux cabled back that there would...
...overseas where we have been witnessing a racial and religious persecution so cruel as to render life almost intolerable. Is there danger of such racial or religious antipathies crossing the ocean and finding foothold here? I cannot believe it. Yet, from time to time, even in this country, we hear vague, intolerant mutterings...
...medium used only an aluminum megaphone. When she held it to her breast, Garland heard a high squeaky voice. He rigged up an amplifier, shut the medium in a room where she could not hear what he asked the spirits. Once he put a lollypop in her mouth so she could not talk for them. The spirits squeaked on. Garland conversed with ghosts of Henry Fuller, an old friend, Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jack London ("Why not Columbus?" asked one irritated ghost). Violet Parent and an assortment of dead Indians, padres and conquistadors, who told him where more crosses could...