Word: scoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pact guaranteeing that none of them will attack Russia's European frontier. Close to midnight verbal promises to sign this pact within 24 hours were exchanged. Reports were current that Persia and Afghanistan will also sign, thus further strengthening the Soviet Union which has always feared aggression. Third score of the week for the big. beaming Russian was a quiet agreement reached in the chambers of British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. This cleaned up the mess resulting from Moscow's badly bungled trial of English engineers for sabotage (TIME, March 27 et seq.). Because...
...States had voted "No," six "Yes" (Arizona. Arkansas, California, Colorado, Montana. Wisconsin). During the winter four more (Michigan. Ohio. Oregon and Washington ) joined the "Yes" parade. New Hampshire and North Dakota reconsidered, switched from "No" to "Yes." Last month New Jersey voted "Yes." Last week Illinois did the same. Score...
...Company broke all attendance records lately with Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet (62,000 heard it in a week). Floradora, musty relic of the nineties, ran close second. Last week at the Muny Opera Rip Van Winkle was put on with Robert Planquette's corny, old-time score jazzed almost beyond recognition. The Muny Rip was a radio entertainer who took too much bootleg gin and dreamed he was the sleepy Washington Irving hero. He sang one piece called ''My Hudson River Home" which was strangely like "Ol' Man River," Red Coats traveled through...
...Theodore Thomas who had commissioned it for the Philadelphia celebration, but to a German bank, there to be held until the $5,000 was deposited. The few tender passages Wagner interpreted as being "the beautiful and accomplished women of America joining in the festival procession." The flyleaf of the score bears the note "Dedicated to the Women's Centennial Committee by Richard Wagner...
...after a series of richly comic episodes wins the girl whom the baron intended for himself. Arabella follows Der Rosenkavalier in many of its details. The impecunious old Count puts on a drinking act as blatant if not half so funny as old Baron Ochs's. A richly-scored waltz dominates the second act, laid at a coachmen's ball. Rosenkavalier airs sprinkle the Arabella score...