Word: performs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following this, there came a group of leopard-clad modern dancers, but we were not to see them perform. A feminine voice, whispering "Hsst, you're on," caused us to move out and follow the speaker down a long hall. While we walked, she explained nervously what we were to do. "You take the girl by the arm, escort her to the punch bowl, wait a moment, and then escort her to the runway. She'll walk out, and when she comes back, you take her arm and walk back into the wings." It sounded terribly easy...
Nowadays, practicing and performing take so much time that Michael has to get his schooling from a tutor. A cocky, self-assured lad, he has already learned 20 concertos, including what he calls "the standard box-office concertos"-Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky. He will soon get a chance to perform all of them. His parents are allowing him a limited number of engagements (24 this season), mostly with symphony orchestras. He likes playing in public. "Stage fright? What's that?" Does he like turning pro so young? "Oh, yes. I like going from city to city...
...acting on the theory that Granger plans to sell the real painting himself. Ultimately, after each double-cross has been doubled and redoubled, Scoundrel Granger is regenerated by the love of a good woman-the kind of feat that angelic Actress Angeli may be forever destined by Hollywood to perform. Ironically, Scripter-Director Richard Brooks is the author of a current novel (The Producer) in which a moviemaker grapples with a front-office demand for an ending that wrenches the hero out of character. Brooks's own movie is a stock item too artificial to pose this issue...
Superior Plane. The details were even gloomier. The MIGs have inflicted punishing losses on daylight raids, have forced U.S. bombers to operate almost entirely at night and singly. "In many respects," Vandenberg admitted, "the MIG can out perform our own F-86-the only airplane in production today capable of challenging the MIG on approximately even terms." Above 25,000 ft., it can outrun and outclimb the F-86, and it can maneuver at supersonic speeds. U.S. pilots claim that with its two 23-mm. and one 37-mm. cannon the MIG is better armed than the F-86 with...
...Good? Rudolf Bing is in the business of producing electrifying experiences. And that requires "singers who can perform in the modern theater." In the old days, a fine voice was usually enough. The Tetrazzinis and Rethbergs took a solid stance, opened their golden throats, and sang. Operagoers still demand, and get, fine voices, but most of them have now been conditioned by Broadway and Hollywood to demand something more: good-looking, cleanly directed and well-rehearsed casts. So the Met scouts keep hunting for all-round performers. Some of their latest diva-debutantes...