Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even as a boy in Mexico, José had been an unworldly sort. But his golden voice and romantic profile soon had him performing at the Chicago Civic Opera, most notably as Nicias in Thais. He went into the movies, made a succession of highly successful musical films in Hollywood, Mexico City and Buenos Aires...
...Some Roughness Here." Each conductor, beginning with German Georg Henschel in 1881, had added something to the Boston's sheen. From 1884 to 1889 and from 1898 to 1906, the Vienna Opera's bearded Wilhelm Gericke, as Founder Higginson wrote, "gave to the orchestra its excellent habits and ideals." It was he, said Higginson, who "taught those violins to sing as violins sing in Vienna alone." Europe's greatest conductor, fiery Hungarian Artur Nikisch (1889-93) taught it how to "poetize," and perhaps he taught too well; at a rehearsal in 1904 Guest Conductor Richard Strauss growled...
...Garwood Kleinhen: Freshman Cross Country, Varsity Cross Country, House Cross Country, Pre-Medical Society, House Dance Committee, Lowell House Opera...
Juan U. Maegil: Freshman Soccer and Swimming, House Squash and Swimming, House Committee, Chmn., Crimson Key Society, House Opera manager, Houpse Dance Committee...
...Doctor and the Girl (MGM) is a painless medical movie glorifying the general practitioner. Young Dr. Glenn Ford, a ruthlessly ambitious intern, is put through a soap-opera wringer until he reforms and becomes a bighearted country doctor with an office under Manhattan's Third Avenue...