Word: lashanska
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...introduced famed playwrights and authors who stepped out on the platform, allowed the audience to look at them. Grover Whalen, the city's greatest handshaker, pompously read a paper describing the Cause and used all his superlatives to boost the talent which followed: Sopranos Evelyn Herbert and Hulda Lashanska (whose name Mr. Whalen could not pronounce), Violinist Francis MacMillen, Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Composer George Gershwin who carried along a lagging orchestra while he played the piano part of his Rhapsody in Blue...
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