Word: performer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operas.* His opinions had been aired: Pizzetti has no fears for the death of opera, says it will surely survive him. His U. S. plans were made public: Pizzetti will play his own works at the Library of Congress in Washington, at Yale and Columbia Universities; visit if not perform in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston...
There are 18 scenes, between each of which Hall Johnson's magnificent Negro choir intones a spiritual. The all-Negro cast perform with a combination of spontaneity, vigor, and accomplished artistry which exemplifies the race at its dramatic best. You will laugh at the ebony, tinsel-winged Angel Gabriel and at many of his heavenly associates. Other things may well make you cry. In any event you will be overcome by a reverence which can only be construed as a tribute to fine art, if, indeed, it is not a manifestation of more inscrutable religious impulses...
...dedicate the rest of his life to education he expounded the theory that: "Racketeering is nothing but a revolt against the present improper and ineffectual system of teaching. If taught properly every boy upon leaving school could go to an employer and say he was specifically fitted to perform a given task. Now they say: 'I went through high school' or 'I went through college.' That doesn't mean anything. But if they said they are a machinist, a chemist or a cabinetmaker, that does mean something. . . . I would not be surprised if I spent...
...course there are some tennis enthusiasts who insist that the professional players of today are not on the same level with the cream of the amateur racquet-wielders. They will probably receive a severe jolt when they watch Vincent Richards and Karel Kozelub perform at Germantown next fall, but even if they are correct the inevitable result of putting the two branches of the sport on an equal footing will be an equalizing one. The good results of open tournaments may not all be apparent from the very start; but they will inevitably come out to the everlasting benefit...
...time in 30 years, the Ring will be given uncut. Not yet have starting times been announced but they are bound to hurry many a patron's luncheon for Die Walküre, unedited yet allowing for only average intermissions, takes approximately four and a half hours to perform, Siegfried four and three quarters, Gotterdammerung five hours or more...