Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Because Engineer Garity's new sound mechanism is so complicated and expensive, only twelve theatres at a time will be equipped to show Fantasia, and RCA sound-equipment manufacturers figure that it will take several years before small-town cinema houses can get the gadgets to perform it. For the present. Fantasia will not be distributed like ordinary films, but will tour the U. S. like twelve road-show companies. But Walt Disney expects Fantasia to run for years, "perhaps even after I am gone...
...Igor Stravinsky himself has signed a contract to do more music with Disney, has blandly averred that Disney's paleontological cataclysm was what he had had in mind all along in his Rite of Spring. Musicians and sound engineers who came to hear Soundman Garity's gadgets perform found that such recording had never before been even approached. Music lovers crowed that more ears would be saved for Beethoven by Fantasia than by all the symphonic lecture-recitalists in the U. S. The New York Academy of Sciences asked for a private showing of the Rite of Spring...
During the last war the League halted the spread of a pest epidemic emanating from Poland outward over Europe by rushing doctors, nurses, and medical supplies to the stricken areas. But now there is no organization internationally powerful enough to perform the same service...
...Nazis of showering germs over London. Instead, disease bar rages were being fired by Londoners at each other in their dank, ill-ventilated, evil-smelling air-raid shelters, where hundreds of thousands huddled together every night - young & old, sick & well, with only makeshift toilet facilities and no chance to perform personal hygiene...
...Stillman; produced by Sonja Henie & Arthur Wirtz) is a vast and chilly vaudeville which slides across 50 tons of ice covering the enlarged stage of the Rockefellers' Center Theatre. Before and behind a curtain composed of 315,720,000 fibres of shimmering glass, a large company of skaters perform a series of fleet and charming ballets interrupted by specialty turns and, not often enough for many spectators, Joe Cook. Steel runners on ice add many mobile possibilities to the human body, and these have never been better exploited, thanks largely to the choreography of Catherine Littlefield & Robert Linden, which...