Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Filling in with impromptu remarks while waiting for a member who had forgotten his music, Mr. Holmes suggested the difficulty faced by an amateur orchestra in finding appropriate music for its programs. Works simple enough to be performed by the non-professional musician are quite apt to be unsatisfactory to the listener. Granting the validity of this problem, it is more to the credit of Mr. Holmes and his Orchestra that they were able to select a program which would please the audience while still falling within the technical limitations of the players...
...hour show) is given $20 and a chance to bet on their answers to questions in a given field. Quizmaster Groucho perches on a stool by the microphone, and chats with them between questions. He encourages them to tell their life stories, and as they talk, he festoons the impromptu dialogue with strings of rapid-fire gags, or simply guides his victims into verbal traps and lets them writhe. "Women are the best ones on this program," says Marx, carefully flicking cigar ashes on his grey slacks. "They talk a lot. And the older women talk more than the younger...
...students delighted with the proceedings, but so were Life and newspaper photographers, the University Hall secretarial staff, and a trained dog who tried to earn himself a screen test before Assistant Director Sid Sidman. To keep the people happy while waiting for the sun, Thayer Hall freshmen offered an impromptu program of amplified Al Jolson songs and Dwight Fiske records...
Dunster House underwent a 15-minute unexplained blackout when light power failed, an impromptu hand paraded in Lowell House courtyard, and outside shrinking was noticeable on Mt. Auburn Street...
After an introductory speech, Dr. Moreno picked two graduate students from the audience and put them through a brief impromptu act to demonstrate uses of the psychodramatic technique which he developed at Vienna 30 years ago. The point of the psychodrama, Moreno explained, is to create a situation in which the person can act spontaneously...