Word: ober
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sketches, which continue the story in this rather laughable fashion, exhibit strong powers of social satire and characterization. Though Ober-laender lacks much that can be found in Daumier, this small sample of his work is convincing enough to make anyone who sees it want to see more. Humor in art presents difficulties which are not easy to surmount. A ludicrous subject, if not sufficiently restrained by means of proper emphasis upon style and technique will perhaps draw a short but hearty laugh from an onlooker. The same subject performed in a subtle fashion will cause a series of chuckles...
...Pianist Olga Samaroff (born Lucy Hickenlooper in San Antonio, Tex. and once married to Conductor Leopold Stokowski), who deplored the profession's "cutthroat competition," stepped up by refugee musicians in the U. S. The ladies re-elected as their president curly-browed, sweet-spoken Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober of Norfolk, Va., to whom The Good Fairy Valse was dedicated and played by Pianist Henry Holden Huss. Mrs. Ober waved a triumphant wand...
...During these two years," she said, "we have been somewhat frightened by the silence of our countrymen created by the lack of community or mass singing. . . ." To break the silence, President Ober had arranged for a "national chorus" of 950 voices. When this great choir trooped into Baltimore's Lyric Theatre to perform such easily negotiable gems as Ah, Love but a Day by Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, it had to be placed in the orchestra seats while the audience sat on the stage. When part of the national chorus, transported to the World's Fair, reached...
...Frank R. Ober, Assistant Dean of the Medical School, heads the committee in charge of the gathering, which is being held under the auspices of the Massachusetts Medical Association, and six other Harvard medical men are members of the committee. Dr. Ober presided at the morning session yesterday and Dr. George M. Minot, professor of Medicine, over the afternoon session, no Medical School men were among the 12 speakers, who included two professors from Yale, Columbia and Johns Hopkins...
Ralph Ingersoll, publisher of Time magazine, will be the guest of honor at the first weekly dinner to be held for the Nieman Fellows, it was announced yesterday. The group with the addition of the faculty committee of five, will dine at Locke Ober's, with a round table discussion following...