Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under existing U. S. immigration laws, an alien artist who claims distinguished merit may obtain a U. S. visa merely by showing a contract for U. S. performances to a U. S. Consul. England is not so liberal toward foreign artists, permits them to enter for professional purposes only when there is proof that the applicant has qualifications which place him beyond competition with native artists. The French ruling is almost as stringent. Germany, Poland, Russia refuse to let alien artists take their earnings from the country. Italy bans all foreign performers save those who establish residences...
...rectify this unfavorable trade balance against U. S. talent, the Immigration Committee was considering a bill which would require all foreign actors, singers, and orchestra conductors except those of "distinguished merit," to secure special permission from the Department of Labor before being allowed to work in the U. S. The merit qualification was what brought the Guild to Washington. Also no mention had been made of solo instrumentalists and dancers. The Guild wanted to put all foreign artists through the Department of Labor's strainer. "You have taken care of those in the bush leagues," complained Tenor Charles Hackett...
...observatories the world over. Year later Peltier went to Cambridge as honor delegate at the convention of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, whose membership of 350 includes only twelve professionals. There, for his "tremendous contributions" to astronomy, he was given the association's first merit award-a handsome certificate and a cash prize. Someone once asked Astronomer Peltier why he did not join the staff of a big observatory. He replied that 1) he was satisfied to remain a freelance; 2) he had not been invited. The fact is that amateurs render valuable service by "sweeping...
...Snowed Under," with George Brent and Genevieve Tobin, succeeds too eminently in being silly to merit any attention here. But to this snobby dismissal it is only fair to add that some people enjoyed...
...seemed concerned with the music's real merit had praise for the choruses by singers from the Art of Musical Russia. Lovers of the theatre pointed to the beggar's dance directed by Russian Maria Yakovleva, to the second-act climax played with sure-fire effect by the Detroit Symphony men. Conductor for the occasion was dynamic Franco Ghione, who had traveled from Italy especially for The Dybbuk, seemed to have the score completely at his finger tips. Conventional was the pale-faced Hanan, interpreted by Frederick Jagel, Brooklyn-born tenor from the Metropolitan Opera. Highest-priced singer...