Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where her father ran a neighborhood store. In vaudeville she was one of those fat, supernaturally stupid girls who serve up joke cues to dapper comedians. Later, in Broadway nightclubs, her fame spread as a singer of semi-salacious, contemporary folk songs. She sang with Paul Ash's orchestra, later in the musical comedy Good Boy. Young men in eastern colleges have voted for her as their favorite actress...
...reply), the Open Letter devoted itself chiefly to an interpretation of the Lucky Strike campaign (which, however, it failed to mention by name) as subversive to the youth of the nation. Having told how millions of "young men, women and children" assemble to hear the Lucky Strike radio orchestra, the Letter pointed out that "once attention is centred on the dance program, a flow of tainted testimonials begins to poison the air." Young women have already dieted themselves to the very threshold of tuberculosis, yet these "future mothers of the nation" are encouraged to "substitute" cigarets for "wholesome food." Furthermore...
Following is the program which will be rendered by an orchestra of 80 directed by Alfredo Casells: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Air Bach Dance-Suite for String Orchestra Purcell-Bliss Overture to "Oberon" Weber Prelude and Love-Death from and Isolde" "Tristan Wagner "The Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem Respighi "Ballet of the Hours," from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Second Hungarian Rhapsody Lisst
Following is the program which will be rendered by an orchestra of 80 directed by Alfredo Casella: Entrance of the Guests into the Wart burg, "Tannhauser" Wagner Minuet Boccherini Suite from "Carmen" Bizet Overture to "The Roman Carnival" Berlioz "Don Juan," Tone Poem R. Strauss "Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier First Hungarian Dance Brahms Intermezzo, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni Marche Slave Tchalkovsky
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock the first of the "Pops" will be given at Symphony Hall. Alfredo Casella conducting an orchestra of 80 symphony players...