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...everyone knew that she was far from being a novice, that on the strength of her European reputation she had deserved a Metropolitan hearing several years ago. There were those in the audience who remembered her sensational concert debut in 1923,when she appeared in Carnegie Hall as a plump, glossy-haired girl of 19, an unknown suddenly called upon to substitute for Soprano Anna Case. Subject for high praise then was the beauty of her voice, its vibrant warmth, its effortless production. Smooth singing was to be expected at her Metropolitan debut, and with the exception...
...little science society gathered in the town of Brünn, Austria, to hear a paper on inheritance in plants by an Augustinian monk from the nearby monastery. Gregor Johann Mendel wore a long, black coat and his trousers were tucked into his high boots. He was a plump, genial man with bright, blue eyes...
Revisiting Boys High School, Brooklyn, after 26 years, Florida's plump-jowled, energetic Governor Dave Sholtz examined the 1910 yearbook, which listed his nickname as "Busy Izzy...
...Tottenham, England, Mayor E. A. Jay published the letter of an unnamed British soldier stationed on the lonely island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, asking for a wife who is "blonde, lively, a non-smoker about five feet three, not too plump." Of himself he mentioned only his hazel eyes. Mayor Jay got applications from 250 British women, forwarded them without comment to Mauritius...
With Fannie Brice, on the other hand, there is practically never cause for com plaint. Her tidbit in this show is her impersonation of a solemn Jewish dancer interpreting "Rewolt" and "de Messes." Plump, ingratiating Comedian Bob Hope (Roberta) is given an amusing song to sing hopelessly to comely Eve Arden (Parade). Vernon Duke wrote the tune; Ira Gershwin the lyric...