Word: karle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best section of Act I is "Impromptu" laid in the music publishing office of Ernst Weber at Munich. To it come apple-cheeked Dr. Lessing (Al Shean), his pretty, wide-eyed daughter Sieglinde (Katherine Carrington of Face the Music) and her rustic boy friend Karl (Walter Slezak). These bucolics have arrived in town with the walking club from the mountain village of Edendorf where everyone seems to have been born with a pitchpipe in his mouth. Unhappily for them, the rural lovers meet a playwright and his man-killing mistress, an opera star, impersonated with gusto by beauteous Natalie Hall...
...blue & white chevronings of Bavaria, caged ! parrots, romping children, elephants, a performing bear and good pastry. Still ; bent on their new amorous guests, the ! playwright tries to sing "One More Dance" to bewildered Sieglinde while his mistress out-howls him with "Night Flies By." for the benefit of timid Karl. Upshot of this sequence: The playwright puts Sieglinde in his new play, the mistress carries Karl off to Berlin. With much sympathy and good humor, Messrs Hammerstein & Kern unravel their amatory knots to everyone's satisfaction, send their audience home with a sense of benign gratification. Best tunes: naive...
Last week Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced a plan for guarding against possible future deficits. President Karl Taylor Compton said that this year's budget was balanced, but the M. I. T. faculty voted anyway to lay up a reserve as follows: Between next Dec. i and July 1, 1933, the staff will give up 10% of their salaries, with $500 exempt. If M. I. T. does not need all of this fund, it will be pro-rated back at the end of the period. The remainder of the reserve fund involves a much-discussed source of university income...
...United States is the best place in the world for the man who has a Job, and the worst place in the civilized world for the man who does not have a job," said Karl de Schweinitz, who was for two years secretary of the Philadelphia Committee for Unemployment Relief and is now a member of the Philadelphia County Relief Board, in an interview yesterday...
...Nobel Prizes in Medicine, against the two for the U. S. Previous Britons: the late Sir Ronald Ross (1902), Archibald Vivian Hill (1922), John James Rickard Macleod (1923, while at Toronto), Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1929). The U. S. Nobelmen: French-born Alexis Carrel (1912), Austrian-born Karl Landsteiner...