Word: ores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Ballet Master George Balanchine and his collaborator Paul Tchelitchev offered was the most inept production that present-day operagoers have witnessed on the Metropolitan stage. The bereaved Orpheus was personified by Lew Christensen, a tall, strapping young man from Portland, Ore., who wore black trunks, black mitts, a black cape and a lyre on his back, expressed his sorrow by thrusting his fists into the air, swaying before a funereal mound which could easily have covered scores of Eurydices. Muscular William Dollar, a native of St. Louis, leaped into the picture as Amor (Love), wearing white tights and great...
...that he had never heard a Toscanini performance, that this was therefore his last chance. The next in line would claim that he had attended all the Maestro's concerts, that he could not miss the last. Speculators were offered $100 and more for a ticket. In Portland, Ore. a music-lover was ready to charter a plane, ily East for the performance. He stayed home, because no amount of money could get him a seat. Inside the Hall bedlam would have been let loose again, except for the little white-haired Maestro. He bowed gravely to his wildly...
...schools, use of the corrective rod is prohibited by law. New York City. Chicago, Wilmington and Washington forbid all forms of corporal punishment in their educational systems. Erring moppets in Minneapolis, Omaha. El Paso and Providence may be chastised only with parental consent. Teachers in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. are not allowed to pull pupils' ears. In New Orleans they are expressly enjoined from "pulling hair, striking, knocking down and pinching." Nevertheless, in three widely separated quarters of the nation last week, three teachers who had failed to spare the rod to recalcitrant students were upheld...
...Twentieth Century-Fox). Impressed with the resources of U. S. history as a mine of cinema material, Producer Darryl Zanuck has so far worked it for such nuggets as The Bowery, The Mighty Barmim and The Prisoner of Shark Island. A Message to García is more ore from the same vein, showing that 1898 courier, Lieutenant Andrew Summers Rowan, performing the errand which the late Elbert Hubbard publicized in his famed essay. Dispatched by President McKinley to give Cuban General Calixto García a verbal message to the effect that the U. S. was on his side...
Jack Reed was born (1887) into the provincial aristocracy of Portland, Ore. At his Episcopalian christening his sponsors gave him the name of John Silas Reed. He grew up to be a gangling, delicate boy, good at swimming, headstrong and difficult in class. "Defiance was not a principle with him; it was an instinct." His family sent him east to school, then to Harvard. Reed soon became a well-known but not a popular member of his class. Fiercely ambitious, fiercely sensitive, he was regarded as pushing and unsound...