Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band. Three years later she stopped a Broadway show, Sing Out the News, with her sultry rendition of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones. But her break came with a chance to fill in for ailing Blues Singer Ida Cox at Barney Josephson's downtown Café Society, a Manhattan Mecca for jazz connoisseurs. Result: Hazel Scott has been entertaining Café Society audiences ever since. Two years ago Showman Josephson opened a Cafe Society Uptown to house her art with greater swank, now finds it packed nightly with Scott fans: socialites, Broadway sophisticates, savants-about-town. Celebrities regard her with...
Rugged, sharp-nosed Sam Ogden gave up a profitable insurance business in Elizabeth, N.J. in 1929 to move to Landgrove. With his own vision and his own hands he helped build it into a summer resort, a winter mecca for skiers. He helped improve streets and schools; in the Legislature he worked for forest and wildlife conservation. And he learned how to talk to the Vermont people...
...knows better, and says so. Then his sister, Sheila (Peggy Ann Garner), gets trainsick, throws up for miles until the Paris train is stopped by the advancing Nazis. Soon Rose (Fleurette Zama) joins the party-at Ronnie's invitation. Snorts Woolley: "I do not propose to become the Mecca for every unfortunate child...
...Mahler, Mottl, etc., grew up in Germany when Germany was cock of the musical roost and knew it. They worked under Liszt in Weimar, they learnt their Wagner opera in Bayrenth under the eye of the "Master," and in the flush post-war days they made Salzburg a summer Mecca for European big-wigs, where Mozart and Beethoven had to fight Schiaparell for the center of the stage. Of all this illustrious company of conductors, Weingartner was perhaps the most talented, and it is to Columbia's everlasting credit that they went to Europe to have him record their heavy...
...little pock-marked and addicted to sadism, but a man after the Hurs' hearts. They are a cattle-grazing tribe of some 100,000, whose poor homeland of sand, scrub jungles and marshes has made them perverse. They are Moslems, but they build their mosques facing away from Mecca and orthodox Moslems call them Lurs (the Unholy). Some 8,000 Hurs, the Lurs, are joined in blood brotherhood in fanatic support of Pir of Pagaro, whom they regard as God. They dress in green, salute each other by folding their arms on their chests, have nothing to do with...