Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...choirs gave the first concert performance of an entire service for the synagogue by Mr. Arthur Foote, assisted by various instrumentalists, and Mrs. Bertha Cushing Child as reader. The service did not make a universal appeal, but one who knows it fairly well can vouch for the fact that it improves on better acquaintance. Musically, it was given an altogether excellent performance, to us it seemed that the reader's part was much overdone, and the whole thing a bit "stagey...
...says the newspaper reader of today. Yet but a short distance out on the stormy Atlantic hovers romance in plenty; unsolved tragedies, unidentified bodies washed ashore, feminine accomplices and love interest, sudden fierce skirmishes on the high seas, in fact all the sundry trappings of blood-and-thunder yarns. All that lacks is a Stevenson or a Conrad to write the modern romance...
Thursday evening, in Jordan Hall, the Temple Choirs will give a concert of Jewish liturgical and folk music. Pieces by Bortnianski, Gretchaninov, Moussorgsky, and a synagogue service by Arthur Foote are on the program. Mrs. Bertha Cushing Child will act as reader. This is one of the really good choirs of America; led by Mr. Henry Gideon, an accomplished and versatile musician of great skill and magnetism, it will give what promises to be one of the eventful concerts of the present season...
...tales more, to signalize them for success incomplete and laurels all but won. How Mr. Hutchinson endures his own iteration it is difficult to see. And not only his iteration, but his childishness is disagreeable. "What jolly, jolly fun!" he exclaims; bang! goes the book and the reader's patience. But reader, reopen! At the end of the story you will be rewarded with what is perhaps nearer nobility than any other page in the volume. Courage triumphing over infamy, a grotesque and petty nature winning its hard verdict from truth and struggling into the light at last...
...Brien sagaciously observes that any year in which a single great story appeared would be a year distinguished above its fellows. The stories in this book he found worth reprinting, he continues. The reader should be careful to take the word "worth" in the right sense...