Word: performances
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Film Foundation, was faced yesterday afternoon with the problem of making a baby boa-constrictor constrict. An order from the Biology Department had come in for a film of a boa-constrictor eating his dinner; a sleck, five-foot specimen was accordingly secured, but it refused to perform even in the face of alternate starvation in solitude and mice before the camera...
...bright spotlight necessary for the photographic exposure is believed to be the cause of the reptile's stubbornness. It was stated that the snake has not eaten since Thanks-giving, but that it will not eat until it decides to perform for the Film Foundation...
...himself, Adolf was encouraged by his mother to do watercolors. In his 'teens he became an orphan, went to Vienna, tried to be a painter, became a builder's helper ("house painter" to his critics) and emigrated to Munich with $4 in his pocket rather than perform his Austrian compulsory military service...
...maintain their obligations to us. ... The discussion of debts is necessarily connected with the solution of the major problems at the World Economic Conference and the Arms Conference. . . . The ideal way therefore would seem to be that some of our representatives should be selected at once who can perform both these functions of preparing for the World Economic Conference and exchange views upon the debt question with certain nations at once. It would be an advantage for some of them to be associated with the Arms Conference...
...debut fortnight ago when he played Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, of which San Francisco is tired but which Manhattan seldom hears now since Toscanini is not attracted to the pessimistic Russian's music. The tireless drilling that Toscanini gives his orchestra made Dobrowen's dramatic Tchaikovsky perform-ance possible. Rehearsals bore Dobrowen. Audiences excite him. He likes to wait for the inspiration of the moment, which rarely counts when an orchestra is ragged...