Word: kelleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...youngest full-fledged symphony conductor in the U. S. is chubby, red-headed James Kelley Guthrie, 22. Last week he mounted the conductor's stand and, before 5,000 people in the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium, guided the new Hollywood Grand Opera Association through its first presentation, Aïda. Except for the moment when four terrified white horses seemed ready to jump into the orchestra pit, the opera proceeded without a hitch and made San Francisco's grizzled Conductor Alfred Hertz exclaim: "He showed a mastery of musical forces quite unusual at his early...
...Bernardino publisher (James A. Guthrie), James Kelley Guthrie early took lessons on the flute, "not because I was particularly interested in it but because it was expected of me." A trip to San Francisco, where he heard Hertz lead the Symphony Orchestra, fanned his interest. At 15 he rounded up 60 professional, amateur and retired musicians, hired 30 more from Los Angeles, to make the San Bernardino Community Orchestra. Two years later he began to lead it. Meantime he was in demand for local theatre orchestras, went on tour playing and conducting for Actress Olga Baclanova. In 1931 he entered...
...Kelley's touchdown was by no means his smartest move in the Princeton game. In the last quarter, the crowd saw what looked like a tragedy when Dave Colwell, Yale's ace punter, operated on for appendicitis only three weeks before and sent into the game to kick out of the end zone, was knocked unconscious two plays later...
Last week it came out that Colwell was not knocked unconscious at all but was merely playing possum at Kelley's suggestion in order to get taken out of the game without costing Yale the five-yard penalty imposed for extra substitutions not required by injuries...
...addition to being football's No. 1 opportunist, Kelley is its most famed comedian. His contributions to the chatter that passes back & forth between two teams on the field, printed after every game, became as famed as Mae West wisecracks. A top Kelleyism was his 1934 remark to the Princeton quarterback whose team, undefeated all season, had fumbled six times in the first ten minutes: "Has the Rose Bowl got handles on it?" At Yale Kelley's nonathletic doings have paralleled his career on the football field. In his sophomore year, he refused to join a fraternity because...