Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finland can not hope to hold out long against Russia, a nation of 180,000,000 people, but Germany's population is more than equal to the combined populations of France and England. Of course, the more people a nation has, the more work that nation can perform. This potential working capacity, then, is in favor of Germany...
Miss Anne Smith is the director of an even dozen Wellesley beauties, slated to perform to music for 15 minutes in rhythmic swimming, waltzing, water stunts, and formations...
...stage, over Mr. Lewis' head. Angry delegates leaped from their seats. To puzzled Mr. Lewis, who did not see the flag, a convention secretary passed a note. The offensive emblem was removed. "It appears," said Mr. Lewis, whose union has long barred known Reds, "that someone attempted to perform a most cowardly, reprehensible and dastardly trick...
When it was announced, after all this fuss & feathers, that both Conductor Leinsdorf and Tenor Melchior would perform last week in Gotterdammerung, operagoers jammed the Metropolitan to see the fun. Tenor Melchior was so nervous that he got his eagle-winged Norse warrior's helmet on backwards, but he sang as though he was out to bust his buttons. At the end of the act the audience clapped coldly for Tenor Melchior, gave Conductor Leinsdorf an ovation...
...kindly, jealous Hugo Matuschek, Frank Morgan (who has a flair for Central European roles) turns in his best perform ance since he was Diana Wynyard's husband in Reunion in Vienna. William Tracy (the much hazed plebe of Brother Rat} is the typically brassy errand boy who, after saving his boss from suicide, badgers him into making his rescuer a clerk. James Stewart walks through the amiable busi ness of being James Stewart. Joseph Schildkraut, as usual in a minor part, as 'usual acts rings around everybody else...