Word: hirings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...felt about her. Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Association nervously sniffed the wind before making up its mind whether to ask its old star back. The New York Sun's critic Irving Kolodin thought it should not. To him, it was all right for Flagstad to hire a hall where the public could buy tickets or stay away; it was something else for her to sing at the Met, where the public buys season tickets months in advance, and has to accept whatever singers the management offers. Added Kolodin: "I have heard it said that the only factor...
When Sam got into the contracting business, he had had so little schooling that he could hardly read contracts. But that did not bother him. As he once said: "What the hell, I can always hire college graduates to do the pencil-&-paper work." Now he can read well enough for his purposes: he just skips the big words...
...first to hire a boxcar and head south was shy, skinny John Red, 30. Says John, who hadn't had a haircut in months: "People will think you got money if you dress up. They might try to rob you." He took eight horses and one pony south...
Others in the cast include: S. J. Gilman, Jr. '44 as Bertrand de Poulanger, Clyde Eagleton '48 as the Steward, Robert P. Atkinson '50 as Gilles de Rais, Whitley Y. Dresser '50 as Captain La Hire, David F. Wheeler '47 as D'Estivet, Richard Robbins '50 as De Courcelles, Thomas H. Philips '47 as the Executioner, Edward T. Kenyon '50 as Gentleman of 1920, and Robert E. Rockman '46 as Due de Tremouille...
...mental care? Benjamin Joy, chairman of the board of trustees for Massachusetts Training Schools, explained that he had been refused permission to hire psychiatrists, though one out of five inmates were mentally defective...