Word: lulu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Girls' Industrial School at Beloit, Kans., is a gloomy looking "corrective" institution whose normal student body is composed of girls under 19 convicted of minor crimes. Last January, when Democrat Walter A. Huxman replaced Republican Alfred Landon as Governor of Kansas, the superintendent of Beloit, Republican Lulu Coyner was replaced by Democrat Blanche Peterson. Kansas' onetime (1933-35) Democratic Congresswoman Mrs. Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy recently paid a call on Mrs. Peterson. Result of her call was an uproar which last week made Beloit front page news throughout...
...regime, 62 of Beloit's inmates had been surgically rendered incapable of having children, that 22 more had been scheduled for similar operations when she took office. Having verified from the ledgers of the institution that approximately $4,000 had been paid for sterilizations during two years of Lulu Coyner's regime, Mrs. McCarthy was last week noisily demanding that the State investigate the matter. In puritanical Kansas, sterilization is an old issue. Forty years ago the head of the State School for Insane Youth was accused of sterilizing his charges, never denied doing so. In 1917, Kansas...
...Briggs Cunningham's Lulu: the Scandinavian Gold Cup, outstanding international trophy for six-meter yachts; off Oyster...
...Macrae and Producer Sam Gordon (Charles Winninger) read her dismal drama, North Winds, in which the principal characters all freeze to death, they take an option on it as a means of persuading Judith to sing in their forthcoming show. When both rehearsals and romance are upset by jealous Lulu Riley (Miss Hovick), Macrae gets everything running smoothly again by the miraculous expedient of converting North Winds into a hit musical...
Revolting as Lulu's career is in outline, Composer Berg dressed it in music too peculiar and powerful to be discounted. Throughout he used the twelve-tone scale he learned from Arnold Schönberg, to whom the opera is dedicated. Song forms are woven in so cunningly as not to be obtrusive. A sonata form announces the appearance of Dr. Schön; a rondo suggests his son. The whole orchestra converses gruesomely over one death, lyrically pleads when the composer wanted sympathy for his heroine, strikes an ugly dissonance of shrieking brasses when she is murdered...