Word: marianism
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Hurok obviously enjoys hobnobbing with his famous clients. Hot summer weekends he is apt to be lazying beside Marian Anderson's Connecticut swimming pool. He so admired his first big name artist, Feodor Chaliapin, that he followed him to Europe to get his business-and lost $100,000 on him. Once Chaliapin and Hurok, dressed in rags, spent a night in a Bowery flophouse. It was a gag on Chaliapin's part; Hurok saw to it that newspaper photographers found out about...
Murray Levin--Marian Rubin (Brookline...
...Chicago apartment, Mrs. Marian Caldwell dug carefully into a grapefruit, then dodged back-a .22 caliber bullet, fired from outside her window, had passed through her nose...
...much free publicity has been gained for Hazel Scott and against the D.A.R. in regard to the use of Constitution Hall in Washington, B.C. by Negroes [TIME, Oct. 15, Oct. 22], I should like to call to your attention certain facts which were given to me at the time Marian Anderson publicized this same situation a few years ago. Will you please corroborate these facts for us. Is there not a statute of long standing in the city of Washington specifying that Negroes cannot hire the use of public halls designated for white people? Does not the D.A.R. lease...
...have suffered war losses"). Then, running down the First Lady's social list, she announced that Mrs. Truman would attend a tea on Oct. 12 given by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1939 Mrs. Roosevelt had quit the D.A.R. because it refused to let Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sing in the Society's Constitution Hall; now the D.A.R. was embroiled in a similar controversy with publicity-seeking Negro Pianist Hazel Scott. But the girls tactfully asked no questions about Mrs. Truman's racial opinions...