Word: parkerisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...command over four solo singers and a composite chorus of 250. This time there were men in her orchestra, managing some of the unwieldy winds. Though Conductor Brico was in excellent form and the women played better than ever before, the real hero of the evening was Horatio William Parker, a dead and almost forgotten composer whose first oratorio made him famous 40 years ago. His Hora Novissima has since been played so rarely in the concert hall that last week it seemed like a premiere...
...Richardson, Mrs. Herbert Rogers, Mrs. M. L. Rogers, Mrs. Harry W. Russell, Mrs. Hollis L. Seavey, Mrs. Walter H. Sides, Mrs. S. G. Sleeper, Mrs. C. N. Smith, Mrs. Thomas K. Snyder, Mrs. Sidney St. F. Thaxter, Mrs. A. A. Thayer, Mrs. Richard M. Walsh, Mrs. Jules Wettlauter, Mrs. Parker W. Whittemore, Mrs. Arthur L. Woodman, Mrs. Ralph Woodworth...
Twice married Mr. Dykstra has a daughter Elizabeth, 24, a stepson Franz, 16, who is a junior at the University School of Cincinnati, a 2-year-old grandson named Stephen Dykstra Posey. Last week Cedric Parker of Madison's Capital Times, a Progressive organ which remorselessly hounded glib, dressy Republican Frank, interviewed Mr. Dykstra and found that "he does not wear spats, carries no cane, and doesn't care if his trousers are in press...
...conducting, F. P. A. has been noted, like Chicago's late Bert Leston Taylor ("B. L. T.") as much for his contributors as for his own writings. Some favorite F. P. A. "contribs," under their own names and various pseudonyms, have been Poets Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Arthur Guiterman, Writers Sinclair Lewis Morrie (Of Thee I Sing) Ryskind, Ring Lardner, John Erskine, Edna Ferber, Composer Deems Taylor, Funnyman Groucho Marx...
...Frank Parker, protege of Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley: the U. S. Indoor Championship, 6-4, 6-4, 1-6, 4-6, 6-1 against Frank Bowden in the final which he reached without losing a set; in Manhattan. New women's indoor champion: France's Mme Sylvia Henrotin...