Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...catchpenny musical whirligig cir-cularizing Leo Carrillo, Phil Regan, Ann Dvorak and James Gleason, with bursts of crooning, hoofing, variety specialties, a baseball game (with a glimpse of Baseballer Joe Di Maggio), a rodeo. Brass rings: Tamara Geva (Chauve-Souris, Flying Colors, On Your Toes) as an opera singer; Cab Galloway's "Yascha"; Ted Lewis' "Baby" still smiling at him; Gene Autry, the singing cowboy, reminding folks that it is Round Up Time in Reno...
...show will tour to Worcester, Northampton, Englewood, New Jersey, and Hamilton, Bermuda. While in Bermuda, the production will occupy the Bermuda Opera House...
...Academy of Political Science, a prosperous group of U. S. businessmen, professors and economists at whose gatherings white ties are more in evidence than Windsor bows, made large headlines in 1933 when George Bernard Shaw delivered a saucy socialistic speech under its auspices at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Last week the Academy, gathered for its 57th annual meeting at Manhattan's Astor Hotel, heard an equally newsmaking speech, neither saucy nor socialistic, by U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau...
...organization of a symphony orchestra that would train and place promising graduate students. Mrs. Harriman promptly took him up, gave him full charge of the musical end, and rounded up for her management boards as imposing a collection of Social Register names as ever decorated the Metropolitan Opera lists. In 1930 Mrs. Harriman dropped put (reason: Depression) and the association was reorganized under the presidency of Mrs. Mary Gary, socialite, music-loving daughter of music-loving Harry Harkness Flagler. By last week, when the National Orchestral Association gave its first concert of the new training season...
...ballet of toe dancers, a chorus of Can Can Girls appears in the second, and in the third, of course, we see the modern chorines. But if you think the Can Can Girls of 1900 had anything to learn from the modern variety, you better drop in on the Opera House and have another look...