Word: sackfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third man in red got around to the rear of the wagon and fought his way inside. He counted one sack of mail and six suitcases and then backed out, not before being bitten by a particularly tough pioneer...
...dozen years ago, however, in the small provincial opera at Bielefeld, Germany, a newly-hired soprano sat practicing cadenzas at a piano, inadvertently sang up to a high G. Surprised, she tried some more, later that day discovered she could sing C in altissimo. Last week that soprano, Erna Sack, made her U. S. debut by radio...
When Erna Sack, a comely blonde stenographer in Berlin, saved her pfennigs to study voice, she thought she was a mezzo-soprano. So did her first teacher, although a subsequent teacher lightened her voice so that, when Conductor Bruno Walter heard it, he gave her small lyric soprano parts at the Charlottenburg Opera. After her accidental discovery of C in altissimo, Soprano Sack perfected her coloratura. When, as a member of the able Dresden Opera, she sang in the world première of Richard Strauss's Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), and later in a revival...
Last Sunday, as a member of General Motors' radio singing troupe, Soprano Sack aimed at her super-high C in a quick staccato passage in Strauss's Voices of Spring, succeeded in singing a brief B, amazed her listeners with two long, rarefied high G's toward the end of this difficult work. This week she makes her U. S. operatic debut, disdaining a wig, as a 100% blonde Rosina in The Barber of Seville, in the Chicago City Opera. Accompanied by her husky, jovial husband, a onetime Berlin taxicab driver who is now her manager...
...Great Garrick (Warner Bros.). As different from the cinema's typical period romance as champagne from sack, Ernest Vajda's figmentary episode in the life of 18th Century Play Actor David Garrick fits the Hollywood gag into the elaborate frame of Georgian humor. Garrick, who played Macbeth in the uniform of a Hanoverian general, might have enjoyed this modernization. He probably would have chuckled at his 1937 impersonator, debonair, English Brian Aherne, stealing scenes from noted Scene-Stealer Edward Everett Horton, but would certainly have advised some rewriting in the interest of pace...