Word: lotta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program listed eight artists, performing works by composers from the 9th Century (Notker Balbulus) to the 18th (Gretry), but the busiest person at a concert given last week in Deep River, Conn. was an earnest lady in a brown evening dress named Lotta Van Buren. She delivered explanatory remarks. She plucked twangy notes with a crow's quill on a monochord. She strummed on a psaltery which looks like a large, shallow cigar-box with strings. Standing up, she tinkled on an octavina. Sitting down, she bowed away on a viol, played a virginal. She blew into a black...
...Ferber stories, the fortunes of the dubious hero and his train are merely a framework for a lively description of logging society, from the snowy Wisconsin camps to the over-stuffed comfort of a rich small-town community. Barney's defeat by his son, who got both pretty Lotta Lindbeck and his father's business, Lotta's adventures in European "society," the 1929 crash and the return to Wisconsin, are narrative trimmings for Author Ferber's slickly factual researches. Lumbermen may be impressed by proofs that she can talk their lingo...
...with a motorcycle escort, received a chrysanthemum "key to San Francisco's heart'' from its Florist-Mayor Angelo J. Rossi. The popular demonstrations reminded oldtimers of San Francisco's last great musical excitement, twelve years ago when chunky Luisa Tetrazzini sang for 100,000 at Lotta's Fountain (TIME...
...Tivoli in 1904, chunky little Luisa Tetrazzini made her U. S. debut and San Francisco thrilled with the pride of discovering her. But mention Tetrazzini to San Franciscans today and they will talk mostly of Christmas Eve, 1910, when she sang for the poor at Lotta's-Fountain, the ugly traffic impediment at Kearney & Market Streets, given by the late Lotta Crabtree who did her first trouping in California. More than 100,000 people heard Tetrazzini do her trills and cadenzas that night, without benefit of modern amplifiers...
...concentrates on picking his singers.*This year Merola has allotted his opening night to Soprano Claudia Muzio who can be depended upon for a sure-fire performance of Tosca. Then will come the night which he hopes to make as memorable as the Christmas Eve when Tetrazzini trilled at Lotta's Fountain. Lily Pons will make her San Francisco debut, sing in Lucia di Lammermoor, the opera which introduced her to Manhattan one blizzardy January afternoon two winters...