Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adjutant William B. Plews of the Volunteers of America (Salvation Army offshoot) was once a vaudeville magician called "William the Great." For the last nine years he has been preaching in his spare time, without much success. Last week, in Rochester, N. Y., his announcement that he would perform tricks (to help religion meet "pretty bad modern competition") filled his Volunteers chapel. Adjutant Plews's first stunt was to impersonate St. Paul in prison at Philippi, in padlocked chains and an unscriptural mail-sack. He prayed for God's aid, escaped in a couple of minutes from...
...companion-picture. "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round," returns to more orthodox lines, and shows a gangster (Leo Carillo) kidnap Ted Louis. Cab Calloway, Kay Thompson, and their respective ensembles (played by themselves) and make them perform in a recording studio which he has just acquired. The various types of modern music are satisfactorily rendered, but the story and dialogue are weak...
Early one evening a lean, white-haired man of great dignity was led by three bowing captains to a table in Manhattan's noisy Cotton Club. He watched Tap-Dancer Bill Robinson perform, listened with interest to the music of Cab Galloway. As he left, Maestro Arturo Toscanini said he had had a fine time...
Miracles-Divided as to whether they actually occur, the commission agreed that God can perform them if he wishes, although some hold that he does not wish...
...Delius went to Friedrich Nietzsche's ode to the superman,Thus Spake Zarathustra, for inspiration, converted portions of its Biblical German oratory into choruses and vocal solos, illustrated its moods with a surging orchestral undercurrent. His Nietzschean Mass, which requires over an hour and a half to perform, is so perfectly formed and climaxed that the listener's interest never lags-a pretty sure sign, in a pieqe of that size, that a great musical mind has been at work...