Word: leading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Little Miss Bluebeard. It seems necessary simply to note that Avery Hopwood's signature is attached to this interlude and that Irene Bordoni emerges from musical comedy to play the lead. Anyone who has even a cursory acquaintance with matters theatrical will conclude correctly that it is a farce, that it deals in marital problems with an engaging indelicacy, that it smartly amusing. Added footnotes must contain the intelligence that Miss Bordoni sings four songs with her customary success; that Bruce McRae plays her leading man; that one Eric Blore, a recent acquisition from London, does the ultimate silliest...
...fellow artists-Paderewski a good pianist but not a great one; likewise Busoni and Rosenthal; Godowsky a good technician; Rachmaninoff a third rater; Josef Hofmann not a great pianist, although he plays well at times. These divertissements were laid to the man's natural peculiarities, those peculiarities which lead him to make apostrophic speeches while he plays a sonata in concert. Actually, however, they were largely the product of an enthusiasm, perhaps a monomania...
...purchases at the artificial price of one dollar an ounce. The depression in the silver industry is world-wide however. Since the War production has never come within 10% of its pre-war quantity. Senator Oddie points out that since silver is largely a by-product of copper, lead and other mines, the depression of silver prices is likely to increase the prices of most non-ferrous metals...
Premier Baldwin of Britain left England for France ostensibly to take a vacation, in reality to await communications from M. Poincaré of France relative to further French proposals in connection with the Ruhr and reparations. The French proposals are expected to lead to a private and even secret meeting of the two Premiers at an early date, and with Belgium's connivance to result in an inter-Allied Conference during the Fall...
...purpose by the philanthropist, John Anderson, with an endowment of $50,000. Later it re- moved to the village of Woods Hole on the mainland. This was the first biological institution established on the edge of the sea for studying marine flora and fauna. But many have followed its lead, notably that of Prof. Yves Delage, in France. Dr. Agassiz's program was revolutionary, one of his rules being the complete prohibition of textbooks in favor of first-hand contact with living material. A sort of scientific communism formed the atmosphere of the school and made possible its; great...