Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enjoyed your April 27 article on Larry Adler. My husband and I saw him at the "hungry i" in San Francisco, and were interested to note that the audience, composed mainly of young people, was enthusiastic about his jazz and blues, but it took the classics to bring down the house...
...first taken to the Mariinsky school when she was 9. Her father, Galina recalls, had wanted a boy, and since there were no other children in the family, she went with him on hunting and fishing trips, wore her hair cropped and "learned to use hammer and saw as well as any handyman...
Commissioned by the National Actors' Guild to do a huge, 127-ft. mural for the Jorge Negrete Theater on the subjects of "Tragedy," "Comedy" and "Farce," Siqueiros was one-third finished before the guild's horrified Secretary-General Rodolfo Landa saw what Old Party Member Siqueiros was up to. By "Tragedy," it turned out, Siqueiros meant "the aggression of the government against the workers." A blazing blue-eyed soldier is slugging a striker while near by a mother weeps over the body of a youth draped in the Mexican flag. Sketched out on adjacent walls were Siqueiros...
Embezzled Heaven (Rhombus-Film; Louis de Rochemont) is a reasonably loyal German adaptation, dubbed in English, of the 1940 bestseller in which Franz (The Song of Bernadette) Werfel proposed a parable of modern man's fatal confusion, as he saw it, of the material and the spiritual worlds. The heroine is a dim-witted old peasant woman (Annie Rosar), who works as a cook in a wealthy Austrian family, saves all her pennies to educate her nephew (Kurt Meisel) for the priesthood. Actually the cook does not care a fig for the nephew. All she wants is a priest...
...continued buying Crane stock until he had amassed 155,000 shares. This, together with the Wattles and Chadbourne shares, gave him 25% of Crane's stock, enough to do what he wanted. Evans and Landa placed four new directors on the board, and Stearns resigned when he saw his power drained away by the insurgents...