Word: minority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course. After the first four or five "frame-ups" and "sell-outs", the effect of the play's message began to wear off, simply because Mr. Blitzstein had cried "wolf" too often. The music was occasionally too loud, and the articulation not always clear. But these were only minor defects in a well-molded whole for which Directors Bernstein and Szathmary deserve considerable credit Miss. Mann's singing of "Nickel under the Foot" was delightful, the acting of Donald Davidson and Kendall Smith quite professional. By and large "The Cradle Will Rock" was an impressive example of modern folk opera...
...Geneva the League of Nations Council, holding its 105th meeting, was confronted with only minor or dead problems. Real doings took place in hushed hotel suites where British Foreign Seretary Lord Halifax and the Soviet delegate Ivan Maisky, also Ambassador at London haggled over the terms of the projected Anglo-French-Soviet mutual aid pact, with the prospect ever brighter that Britain would eventually accede to the Soviet demand for an out-&-out military alliance...
...Bethlehem Bach Choir dates from 1898. Its founder was a rapt, indefatigable German-American named J. Fred Wolle who slaved for two years to train local steelworkers and shopkeepers for their first public performance in 1900 of Bach's prodigious B Minor Mass. He conducted every Festival thereafter until his death in 1933, achieved such marvels of choral attack and expression that Bethlehem became almost as famous for singing as for steel. Guarantors who helped him with the annual Festival included Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Charles M. Schwab...
...Director Jones, big test of the two-day festival was the five-hour B Minor Mass. Composed about 1738, when Johann Sebastian Bach was in the plenitude of his powers, it is the only Catholic mass written by the Lutheran composer.* Bach chose the form because its complexity gave adequate play to his technical resources and expression to his love of God. For many years performed nowhere in the U. S. but at Bethlehem, it is now an annual climax to other choir seasons, is perhaps the most famous liturgical choral work in existence...
...team for the past two seasons, and his brilliant play has been climaxed by his election to the captaincy of the 1940 netmen. Burt prepared at Exeter and captained his Freshman team here at Harvard. As a member of the 1938 and 1939 varsity tennis teams, he won a minor H each year...