Word: marian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unable to stand on both feet, Marian Anderson managed to exhibit one of the richest contralto voices that has been heard in the U. S. for many a year. One Viennese critic described her as "a black Lilli Lehmann." That she is not. But she is an exciting, sure-voiced singer who would make any race proud. Her Handel songs instantly revealed a breadth and nobility of style. Her Schubert Ave Maria was not something interpolated to catch popular fancy; it was fervent, even as an organ tone, deeply impressive. Even more moving...
...REDUCE WITH MILK," the State of New York has advertised. "If you want to lose weight pleasantly and scientifically, we'll gladly send you the Hollywood booklet: 'The Milky Way.' Diets of Movie Stars." Reduction testimonials are offered by Heather Angel, Marian Marsh, Dorothy...
...safely launched, he was ready to plunge again. This winter his roster is rich. Besides the Ballet, the Cathedral Choir and the Vienna Singing Boys, he will present a comic dancer named Trudi Schoop and her ballet from Switzerland. He is advertising first U. S. tours for Negro Contralto Marian Anderson, Russian Pianist Rudolf Serkin, the Kolisch String Quarte from Germany, and a Palestinian, Sarah Osnath-Halevy, who dances and chants in Arabian, Yemenite, Sephardic and Persian...
...have permitted themselves is tucked safely away at the bottom of the earth. Explorers of Antarctica may follow the trail of grateful Admiral Byrd to Adolph Ochs Glacier, and from there survey the eminence of Mount Iphigene some 150 mi. from Arthur Sulzberger Bay. Even the four Sulzberger children, Marian, 16, Ruth Rachel, 14, Judith ("Judy"), 11, and Arthur ("Punch"), 9, were not forgotten. The first two letters of their names are immortalized in Mount Marujupu...
...Orleans French Quarter night club, John Irving Pierce, 23, free-lance writer, handed his open knife to his companion, Marian King, 23. Miss King stabbed him in the heart. Pierce pulled the knife out of his heart, folded it and put it back in his pocket, handed the girl his wallet, said, "Will you pay the check?" With a roomful of patrons watching him in strict silence, Pierce took five steps toward the door, fell down dead. "That, gentlemen," Miss King told police, "is the way a gentleman dies...