Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mary Moore was nervous but she clutched her chiffon handkerchief and met the test bravely. Her voice is small but it is smooth, appealing. Unlike many a coloratura she was faithful to pitch throughout the laciest passages, took her top notes truly. In appearance the Met's youngest singer is as Irish as her ancestors who, she says, "were kings and poets and all." Her father is an employe of Anaconda Van Service. An uncle, Joseph Eustace, who encouraged her from the start, works for the New York City Government...
Miss Beatrice Oliver played the oboe as if she had never heard of the doctors' treatises which warn all oboe-players against congestion in the head. She sounded A. The other players took the pitch. Conductor Brico appeared in a severe black jacket, bobbed her bushy head and the concert was off. The strings played soundly and vigorously through Beethoven's Egmont Overture, his Second Symphony, a Chopin concerto in which Pianist Sigismund Stojowski. once Brico's teacher, soloed academically. Brico conducted with force but not affectation. The strings were rarely delicate but they caught her determination...
...supporting cast is competent. Matheson Lang and Lydia Sherwood are both convincing as the child's parents. The plot is that of the American child "Wednesday's Child." Do not let this discourage you, however. It is not necessary to be in the proper emotional pitch to enjoy this film. The simple sincerity creates the proper emotional pitch. And whether or not the morbidity of the plot is uninteresting to you, the brilliance of the star, the grace, the charm with which this little girl lives her simple London existence will fill you with the greatest admiration...
...noted for their lack of concern for domestic matters, vociferously protest the condition of their rooms. It is time to sit up and take notice. When a bed feels like a corrugated tin roof, when dust covers every object and piles high in neglected corners, irritation reaches a fever pitch. No blame can be attached to the goodies, they do remarkably well considering their human limitations. Rushing about the room, duster and mep in hand, with the speed of an express train is the only possible way for a goodie to clean a three to eight room suite within...
...alike that not even their creator herself can recall all of them. Little ladies, they usually begin without money. Life treats them roughly, and more than one of them has had to cope with the burden of bearing an illegitimate child. But they are never defiled by pitch; they always sin through kindness or trustfulness; they ultimately marry. They improve their minds by studying French, Italian, music, cooking. Model girls, they are just what Mrs. Norris' large, enthusiastic audience of older women, young stenographers, people of circumscribed life and mothers of young girls want-and would like...