Word: orchestramen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Betty Blossom swirled onto the floor, swinging a pair of benzine torches. A drunk rose, foolishly pawed at Dancer Blossom. Up went her arm, up in flames went the flimsy papier-mache ceiling. When firemen fought their way in to smother the blaze, they found a Chinese cook, three orchestramen hidden in the icebox. Dead from flames and trampling were the hatcheck girl, a woman patron, two men. Torch-Dancer Blossom was arrested for violating San Francisco's fire laws...
...opening Carmen went off with such finish and pace that most critics pronounced it superior to the winter performances in which high-priced Rosa Ponselle impersonated the irrepressible gypsy heroine. For its spring season the Metropolitan had kept on 60 of its regular orchestramen, 60 choristers, the complete ballet corps. For its Carmen it had retained Bruna Castagna, a roly-poly Italian who joined the Metropolitan regulars last winter and was no stranger to New Yorkers who had heard her in the popular-priced Hippodrome performances and in the Stadium's summer opera. The Castagna Carmen is a jolly...
...regained his composure he received a delegation from the Philharmonic directors who presented him with an elaborate silver beer service (he never drinks beer), a Beethoven letter and a glowing testimonial. From the Hall he went to his hotel where he gave a supper party for his orchestramen...
...Philadelphia Orchestra to be one of the greatest in the world. Last week's audiences were fascinated by Stokowski: his swift graceful dash for the podium, the svelte back he turned, the fine graceful hands which seem to mold every phrase of the music that is played. The orchestramen seemed like cogs in a magic wheel, but within the Orchestra each player has an important identity. Violinist Alexander Hilsberg is envied for his $35,000 Guarnerius which once belonged to Jan Kubelik. Tubaman Philip Donatelli is the orchestra's winemaker, father of seven daughters. Two Spanish Torellos play...
...tour the Company has required a special train with five baggage cars for scenery, eleven Pullmans for the dancers, stagehands and the 50-odd orchestramen. The train is a world by itself. Baronova is twitted for her marriage and the fact that it caused her to desert her two pet monkeys. Toumanova is teased about one admirer in Austin, Tex., who sends her flowers at every railroad stop, another in Montreal who besieges her with presents and long-distance telephone calls. Cinemadirector Rouben Mamoulian, a fellow Caucasian, entertained her royally each night the company spent in Los Angeles. Aboard train...