Word: performances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trouble with the bucks was that, as soon as they were paid a few coppers, they got gloriously drunk and ran off. One way to tempt them back was for First Officer W. L. Garner to perform his amateur conjuring tricks. On Christmas night, with the dam nearing completion, Conjurer Garner, performing in the glare of truck headlights, made a Belgian five-franc piece disappear from the hand of a small native girl. She let out a piercing scream, her arm became completely stiff, and the natives grew menacing. "She knows the money is inside her arm," grunted the native...
Famed as the work is, it has seldom been performed. Last week, when the Bach Circle presented it at Town Hall, Manhattanites first heard it in its devious entirety. A capacity audience of Bach enthusiasts sat out the two-hour perform ance, then applauded quickly, quickly swarmed doorwards...
...figure of a man with a deep and thrilling voice, John Henry proved an elaborate bore. A rambling, rag-picaresque tale of a black giant toting 800-lb. bales of cotton, laying rails with his bare hands, groaning with woman trouble and at last crashing down while trying to perform a Black River Labor of Hercules, the play never achieved either dramatic excitement or heroic force...
...pained protest that all this activity has nothing to do with education, Ohio State's Vice President Morrill likes to quote University of Minnesota's late, great President Lotus D. Coffman: "The State universities hold that there is no intellectual service too undignified for them to perform...