Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yodeling out-of-tune soprano arias and throaty German tenor recitatives. From Wagnerian opera he would turn to Italian opera, lieder singing, Gilbert & Sullivan, the bedlam inside a music conservatory. Last week Pianist Templeton brought his improvisations and caricatures to Carnegie Hall, where they formed the dessert of a program of more conventional piano music. Crotchety highbrow critics hemmed & hawed about his straight playing, but they had to admit that his mimicry was extraordinary...
...members of the Freshman and Sophomore class have received curious little postcards which enquire politely "whether the recipient is interested in working with foreign students." A start has been made in resurrecting the almost defunct Brooks House Foreign Student Committee, but there is a definite need for some specific program which will care for the hundred foreign students who annually arrive in Cambridge relatively un-befriended...
From the ranks of those who answered the postcards in the affirmative, P. B. H. has a nucleus of administrators for any program they may wish to undrtake. Now that the first step has been taken and the seed sown, the future success of the committee in solving the difficult problem of acclimation depends largely upon the wisdom of their subsequent program of action...
...strong endorsement of Mr. Roosevelt's defense program was considered by many observers to leave little doubt that he is opposed to any proposition in which the United States would take the initiative in seeking to curb the present arms race by negotiation among the politically and economically opposed nations of the world...
...then, and the result is very dull. In between the serious moments there is, however, some wonderful comedy, as, for example, when the leading men sit down at a piano and compose "Oh What A Horse Was Charlie" to the tune of "Mother Machree." On the whole, the program is entertaining,--more than the marquee would indicate...