Word: marian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marian ("Swede") Mansfield, 18, Northwestern University sophomore, diver, who, her own turn finished, wrapped herself in a brown blanket, sat in a camp chair ostentatiously looking in the opposite direction while her rivals sprang off the low board. Obviously the most personable contestant in the event, she was also, in the opinion of five judges, the ablest by a shade. Claudia Eckert, a mop-haired, 18-year-old Northwestern amphibian who, like famed Katherine ("Minnow") Rawls, is indiscriminately adept at all forms of aquatic competition. Last year she won the A. A. U. high diving championship. Last week she lost...
...Marian Anderson to Sing...
While speaking of artists, attention may be called to the fact that Marian Anderson, great negro contralto, is to give a recital at Symphony Hall on March first. Miss Anderson has just returned from an amazing European tour--indeed so amazing that the reports of her triumphs might be disposed of as mere fantasy were not there reliable critics to vouch for their authenticity. Her personality has been described as complete selflessness; and this, coupled with fine vocal ability goes to make a singer of rare individuality...
...casting the rest of the picture, Ben Schulberg apparently looked for foreign types rather than for established picture names. Whether the wisdom of the selections will outweigh the lack of draw names is something only the box-office can decide. A departure was the casting of Marian Marsh in the principal feminine role. She is an ethereal little thing and provides the only element appealing strongly to the emotions of the audience. Under Joe's sympathetic direction she gives a beautiful performance...
...aunt saw to it that, at 13, Marian was moved along into the adult choir. After her father's death, her mother took a job as cleaning woman in a department store. At 16 Marian took over the support of the family, sang at community affairs, made what she calls her formal debut in a concert at a Negro school in Atlanta. Her church friends helped finance her study, felt richly rewarded when, in 1925, she was chosen from 300 applicants to solo with the New York Philharmonic at a Stadium Concert...