Word: musician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gram of radium presented to her by President Harding in 1921 in behalf of U. S. admirers; the $50,000 given her by President Hoover in 1929. But modest Mme Curie always turned away from such honors, such gifts. At her bedside last week were her daughters-Eve, the musician, Irene the scientist who worked with her husband in better quarters but in much the same spirit as Pierre and Marie Curie a generation before them. Mme Curie had lived long enough to see Irene honored as co-discoverer of a phenomenon that excited physicists the world over, artificial radio...
Married. Barbara Kent, youngest daughter of Artist Rockwell Kent; and Alan Carter, Manhattan musician; at "Asgaard," Artist Kent's home near Ausable Forks...
...tries to find the singer. At first he thinks she must be the stately, flirtatious Empress Eugenie (Mady Christians). Instead it turns out to be the Empress's vivacious little hairdresser (Lilian Harvey). The song was written for and dedicated to her by her sweetheart, an ambitious young musician. He does not much mind losing her when he gets a chance to conduct the opera company that the Duke supports. Slight, implausible, edged with a thin glitter of cruelty and sentiment, Heart Song illustrates an important point in cinema technique. In Hollywood, the accepted procedure for musical films...
...others. His home adjoined the medical school. He would work a bit at the piano, then race through the corridors to see how a test tube was behaving. Daytimes he devoted to his medical lectures, to founding and organizing a medical school for women. He called himself a Sunday musician because holidays gave him his only chance for composing. Nights he minded his wife who wheezed through the winters with asthma, dragged him off summers to a shack in the Caucasus where she went barefoot and he had no piano. Borodin called Prince Igor his natural child. Its wild barbaric...
...artist first, then a musician and organist, Dr. Heinroth in a quarter-century of recitals in Pittsburgh established an unequaled standard of program building and organ playing. With a technical mastery superior to the demands made upon it by every musical form from dance to symphony, he endows his interpretations with that beauty and authority that comes only to the executant whose understanding and insight go far beyond mere recital playing...