Word: performances
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invitation extended yesterday to the McGuire sisters, now appearing in Boston, was promptly refused by their agent. "They don't even perform for crippled children," Lumbard said. The agent said that a free appearance would set a precedent that would be too costly...
Lillian Roth, who opens today at the Hotel Bradford, also refused to perform at the Smoker...
Quintet to Perform...
...Jazz Workshop Quintet will also perform. It has been at the Stable for eight months, and includes a former trumpet player for Stan Kenton, Herb Pomeroy. Lumbard described the Quintet's music as progressive jazz...
...juge d'instruction is usually young, inexperienced, so ill-paid that he often has no telephone or typewriter. Originally, magistrates were recruited from men of substance anxious to perform civic duty. Today, the underpaid magistrature has become the refuge of law graduates who fear failure as lawyers, and the juge d'instruction is the lowest rung on the judicial ladder. In the case of Marie Besnard, accused poisoner of 13 relatives and friends, the juge d'instruction was a 26-year-old, newly promoted from clerk, who never visited the scene of the crime, sent...