Word: performance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high jump record on the moon, if athletes could perform there with the same energy and efficiency as on the earth, would exceed...
...studied nights, was eventually given a chance to perform on a program at a Tel-Aviv theatre. Her ambition was so strong that she proceeded to do endless research on the manners and music of all the nearby tribes. She gave her first performances in Europe in 1930. For the past six months she has been in Paris, giving repeated recitals. Her U. S. future has still to be decided. Many an offer was made to her before her debut last week. Refusing them all, she said: "I must first show what...
...kind of celestial institution with a volition of its own, as if it was always right, whereas it is a very human body of fallible nations gathered in council and represented by fallible statesmen trying to do what they can to build up the League, which in time may perform all those services for humanity we dreamed of when the League was first founded. I don't propose tonight to say anything about its constitution or deficiencies in the absence of certain great nations...
...their organizations and the selections which they render. Despite this enthusiasm, however, the voices conveyed no impression of enjoyment or spirit barely restrained to the requirements of the compositions. The impression is rather one of a well-drilled group, not particularly carried away with the compositions which they perform. Technique there is an abundance, but the glee which might be expected of a music loving Glee Club is lacking...
While Longone was irritably defending himself, one Doris Maud Underwood, plump Indian soprano who bills herself as Princess Pakanli of the Chickasaw tribe, brought suit against him for $30,000, claiming that he encouraged her to prepare for leading roles, then refused to let her perform unless she paid him a guarantee of $5,500. Similar rumors kept popping. Critic Glenn Dillard Gunn of the Herald & Examiner openly asserted that Ethel Leginska had paid for the production of her opera, Gale. Soprano Lola Fletcher admitted privately that she had to pay $125 to sing Musetta in La Boheme...