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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"I taught plenty of people to swim and play in the water." reminisced Trustee Roosevelt. "I remember one lady patient of large proportions. She could not get her two feet down to the bottom of the pool. I would seize one large knee [Mr. Roosevelt began an elaborate pantomime of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fat Lady's Feet | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Leading lady is witty, torch-singing Ethel Merman, whose face is as plump as her voice is sharp. Anything Goes further boasts the services of debonair William Gaxton and wistful Victor Moore, respectively President Wintergreen and Vice President Throttlebottom of Of Thee I Sing. Funny as Victor Moore was as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

For 40 years Mrs. Ada Littlejohn has been a Gilbert & Sullivan addict. She has heard nearly every London performance, thought little of traveling to Liverpool, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow to hear others. This week the D'Oyly Carte players gave their 100th Manhattan performance. For Mrs. Littlejohn, who goes five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: ADDICT | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Conductor Rodzinski's début concert was the loudest if not the loveliest that New Yorkers have heard this season. He swayed excitedly from side to side, made fierce faces at the players to bring out every last theatric effect. Scriabin's Divine Poem, stunningly bombastic, compelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sample Screeches | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Great curiosity awaits the Shostakovich opera which will be given this winter in three U. S. cities.* Soviets regard the 28-year-old composer as their ablest musicmaker. His murderous heroine is really a lovable young woman driven to her crimes by incompatible bourgeois surroundings. One sample played last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sample Screeches | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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