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Word: pianos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taking a long farewell to amateur piano playing, Pianist Shotwell shrewdly announced, that she might henceforth be heard in vaudeville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Broken Doll | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...stage show is commonplace, aside from the antics of Herschel Heniere. His performance; at the piano and as a one-man orchestra is good enough to counter act the series of mediocre dances that precede...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cinema THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER Music | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

...mother plotted desperately to avoid the fusillade of village gossip which would destroy the family if once it began. The piteous tearful prisoner sat in a gloomy room with many strands of wool across her lap to excuse her from rising. Few sat with her except M. Allemand, her piano teacher, whose myopic eyes were sharper than anyone imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...courses. So it is easily understood why the Vagabond will turn his path this morning at eleven towards the Pierlan Room of the Music Building where he will hear Mr. Malcolm Holmes, Mr. Carl Miller, and Professor Ballantine play the Beethoven Trio in C minor for violin, cello, and piano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/15/1929 | See Source »

...Modrzejewski,* in Poland. Her boy, then 15, went with her. The California ranch was a failure. Then there was opportunity to make her U.S. debut in Shakespeare, at San Francisco's Cali fornia Theatre. While she studied English, Ralph Modjeski played her Chopin's nocturnes on the piano. He had studied music under Josef Hofmann's father, and his playing brought out Shakespeare's poetical qualities for his mother. Her leading man was the late Maurice Barrymore. His three children, now famed players Ethel, Lionel and John, would crawl on adolescent Ralph Modjeski's knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bridge Builder Modjeski | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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