Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calm, philosophical attitude toward life. A tuner must be able to move smoothly from a honky-tonk where the proprietor is trying to do him out of his pay (average: $4 per tuning) to the studio of a professional musician who hovers around trying to tell him how to perform his highly technical job. He must preserve his equanimity while clocks tick, automobiles honk and children play with his tools. Working with intense concentration, he can rarely tune more than three or four pianos a day. Despite their calm, it is not surprising that piano tuners sometimes have nervous breakdowns...
...meeting, the Council recommended that no class officers be elected for the duration. The reasons against electing permanent officers were given as: first, that no permanent class officer should be elected in his Freshman or Sophomore year, and second, that if elected, these officers have certain duties to perform and there is no point in electing them if they leave for the armed forces immediately and cannot fulfill these duties...
...versatile career has included such checkered roles as Elizebeth Barrett Browning, St. Joan, Juliet, and the lead in "Bill of Divorcement," her first prominent part. Although "The Barretts of Wimpole Street" extended to 900 performances, Miss Cornell's favorites are Shavian and Shakespearian roles. As she has no other plans beyond her current production, she may perform "The Barretts" again for a year's run in army camps. Her husband, director Guthrie McClintic, who directed "Lovers and Friends," co-decides with her in the selection of all her manuscripts, she revealed...
...great Giuseppe Verdi's only well-known comic opera, written when he was 80, based on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, has long been regarded by many critics as his best. But ever since its first performance in 1893, with the late great Baritone Victor Maurel in the title role, it has tended to be a flop at the box office. The reasons are several. As drama Falstaff is sketchy, gentle, lacking in emotional intensity. As music, Falstaff is a tapestry of lacy subtleties, so fragile that only the finest opera companies can perform it without tearing...
True to tradition Phillips Brooks House will again perform the duty of introducing the new class to the beauty that was Harvard when they hold their combined Harvard-Radcliffe tea on Sunday afternoon, March...