Word: plumped
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...Company has been its failure to engage Baritone John Charles Thomas, to reintroduce Tenor Paul Althouse. Last week Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza endeavored to make up for lost time. Baritone Thomas was ordered to get himself into tail coat and top hat and enact the worried parent in Traviata. Plump Tenor Althouse, who sang at the Met twelve years ago, was told to slip on a bearskin for Siegmund in Die Walkure...
Proteges and companies will share profits 50-50 with their guardian. Municipal Yardstick, wholly subsidized by him, will be run by the woman who helped teach Mr. Devlet how to trade in bonds- shrewd, plump Mrs. Irma Eggleston, one-time manager of trading at C. F. Childs & Co. Most notable protege is Richard George Brennan, owner of his own bond house before Depression, whom Guardian Devlet rescued last year from a career as longshoreman and salesman of lumber jackets...
...medal bore his own plump-cheeked, spectacled features in relief. Present, too, were the four asterisks which Dr. Matas inserts at the end of every topic in his medical writings to indicate that the topical "cow has been milked dry." Donor of the Matas Medal is Mike Sam Hart, big-boned, generous New Orleans Jew whose family grew rich in New Orleans public utilities. Mike Hart's late sister, Violet Ida Hart, singer, was long a Matas patient. Her dying wish: "We must do something big for Dr. Matas, something that really will show our appreciation...
...Texans jumbled out of the hall, grumbling loudly. In Hollywood where he went to discuss a cinema contract plump Baritone Thomas said: "Sure, I walked out and I'd do it again. Singers must eat and as for myself I'm especially fond of eating...
...pianist in "The Concert Party." A lacquer-haired caricature of Negro Singer Josephine Baker, star of a "Little Tropical Revue," wiggles and shakes menacingly. In "The Bullfight," a wilder burlesque than the others, a hollow-eyed toreador fliply kills the bull with super-human mag nificence. Plump, beaming Impresario Vittorio Podrecca adapted his Piccoli ("The little ones") from traditional Italian marionets, hates to have them called marionets or puppets. Charles Dillingham first brought him and his little ones to Manhattan in 1923 when they failed dismally. Last year Podrecca came again, succeeded hugely, toured the country, ending this week...